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The  History  of 
The  Lowell  Institute 


JOHN   LOWELL,   JR. 
The  Founder  of  the  Lowell  Institute 

From  the  only  portrait  extant,  painted  in  Egypt  at  the  time  of  the 
execution  of  the  will  endowing  the  Institute 


Cf- 


The  History  of 

The   Lowell   Institute 


BY 


HARRIETTS  KNIGHT  SMITH 


Lamson,  WolfFe  and  Company 

Boston,  New  York  and  London 
MDCCCXCVIII 


Copyright,  1898, 
By  Lamson,  WolfFe  and  Company. 


All  rights  reserved. 


Norwood  Press 

J.  S.  Gushing  &  Co. — Berwick  &  Smith 
Norwood  Mass.  U.  S.  A. 


Contents 


Page 
Author's  Preface         .....         ix 

The  Lowell  Institute I 

A  List  of  Lecturers  and  the  Subjects  of  their 
Lectures  in  the  Lowell  Institute,  1839- 
1898 49 

Index 95 

V 

A  List   of  Publications   corresponding   to,  and 

mainly  the  direct  result  of,  Courses  of  Lect- 
ures delivered  before  the  Lowell  Institute    .      106 


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i 


THE  Author  and  Publishers  gratefully  recognize 
their  obligations  to  representative  New  Englanders, 
for  numerous  courtesies  received  during  the  writing  of 
this  history  ;  but  especially  to  Augustus  Lowell,  Esq. , 
Benjamin  E.  Getting,  M.D.,  and  Professor  William 
T.  Sedgwick,  for  confirmation  and  approval  of  their 
united  labors. 


List  of  Illustrations  and  Portraits 

John   Lowell,   Jr.,  the  Founder  of  the    Lowell 

Institute       ....  Frontispiece 

Opposite  Page 
The  Odeon,  corner  Federal  and  Franklin  Streets, 

Boston         ......        7 

John  Amory  Lowell,  Esq.      .          .          .          .15 

Professor  Jeffries  Wyman         .          ...          .18 

Dr.  B.  E.  Cotting         .          .          .          .          .20 

Marlboro    Hotel,    showing    Passageway   to    the 

Marlboro  Chapel  .          .          .          .          -25 

The  Lowell    Drawing-School    Room   in    Marl- 
boro Chapel  .          .          .          .          .28 

Dr.  Josiah  Parsons  Cooke        .          .          .          -33 
Professor  Louis  Agassiz  .          .          .          -39 

Rogers    Building,     Massachusetts     Institute     of 

Technology  .          .          .          .          -43 

Huntington  Hall,  Rogers  Building   .          .  45 

Plan  of  Huntington  Hall         .          .          .          .48 

vu 


Preface 

SOME  years  since,  in  the  course  of 
other  professional  work,  it  became 
necessary  for  me  to  make  intelligent  men- 
tion of  the  Lowell  Institute  in  connection 
with  Professor  Henry  Drummond's  pres- 
ence in  America,  as  its  lecturer,  —  at  which 
time  I  discovered  with  surprise  that  this 
noble  endowment  had  no  written  his- 
tory. An  intense  love  of  my  native  land 
prompted  me  to  make  a  thorough  review 
of  this  unique  American  institution,  and 
the  following  pages  are  the  result  of  three 
years  of  delightful  investigation. 

"How  do  you  estimate  the  influence 
which  the  Lowell  Institute  has  had  upon 
the  intellectual  life  of  the  country  ?  "  I 
asked  of  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 
within  four  months  of  his  death. 

"  When  you  have  said  every  enthusi- 
astic thing  that  you  may,  you  will  not 


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have  half  filled  the  measure  of  its  impor- 
tance to  Boston  —  New  England  —  the 
country  at  large,"  he  replied. 

"I  myself,"  he  added,  "feel  that  its 
benefits  have  been  of  the  largest  signifi- 
cance to  me,  since  at  the  time  I  was  in- 
vited to  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  on  the 
English  Poets,  I  was  not  a  well-equipped 
critic,  but  as  an  honest  man  I  went  about 
fitting  myself  for  this  important  public 
service  —  which  resulted  in  almost  re- 
making my  intellectual  life,  in  its  larger 
outreach.  No  nobler  or  more  helpful 
institution  exists  in  America  than  Boston's 
Lowell  Institute,"  he  concluded. 

To  the  memory  of  John  Lowell,  Jr., 
the  founder,  —  and  to  the  memory  of 
John  Amory  Lowell,  first  trustee  of  this 
beneficent  foundation,  this  brief  history  is 
dedicated  by  a  citizen,  as  a  grateful  tribute 
to  the  Institute's  first  threescore  years  of 
life  and  effective  work,  in  a  country  whose 
early  history  is  fast  waxing  old. 

HARRIETTS  KNIGHT  SMITH. 

BOSTON,  March,  1898. 


The   Lowell   Institute 

AMONG  the  numerous  educational 
institutions  of  Europe  and  America 
there  is  doubtless  not  one  so  unique  and 
individual  in  its  character  as  the  Lowell 
Institute  of  Boston,  a  foundation  which 
has  existed  for  almost  sixty  years,  with- 
out ostentation,  and  with  no  written  his- 
tory, yet  whose  influences  have  been  so 
far-reaching  that  it  has  taken  rank  as  one 
of  the  noblest  -of  American  institutions, 
and  is  perhaps  even  better  known  among 
many  circles  in  the  Old  World,  through 
the  men  eminent  in  literature,  science, 
and  art  who  have  crossed  the  sea  to  give 
before  it  courses  of  lectures.  It  is  so 
substantially  endowed  as  to  be  able  at 
all  times  to  command  almost  any  man  it 
may  name  as  lecturer,  and  to  remunerate 
him  generously  for  the  careful  preparation 
which  it  always  demands. 


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To  understand  how  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute came  into  being,  one  must  look 
backward  and  learn  something  of  the 
intellectual  life  of  early  New  England. 
In  the  old  days  the  rigorous  Puritan  con- 
science forbade  all  worldly  amusements ; 
and  the  playhouse,  above  all,  was  abso- 
lutely prohibited.  Courses  of  lectures  on 
religious  subjects,  however,  were  encour- 
aged as  essential  to  the  training  of  the 
young.  These  lectures,  which  in  Massa- 
chusetts were  numerous,  became  so  long 
and  burdensome,  although  after  all  they 
seem  to  have  been  the  delight  of  the 
Boston  people,  that  in  1639  tne  General 
Court  took  exception  to  the  length  of 
them  and  to  the  ill  effects  resulting  from 
their  frequency,  whereby  it  was  claimed 
that  "poor  people  were  greatly  led  to 
neglqct  their  affairs,  to  the  great  hazard 
also  of  their  health,  owing  to  their  long 
continuance  into  the  night."  Boston 
expressed  strong  dislike  at  this  legislative 
interference,  "fearing  that  the  precedent 
might  enthrall  them  to  the  civil  power, 


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and  besides  be  a  blemish  upon  them  with 
their  posterity,  as  though  they  needed  to 
be  regulated  by  the  civil  magistrate,  and 
raise  an  ill-savor  of  their  coldness,  as  if  it 
were  possible  for  the  people  of  Boston  to 
complain  of  too  much  preaching."  The 
magistrates,  fearing  trouble,  were  content 
to  apologize  and  abandon  their  scheme 
of  shortening  the  lectures  or  diminishing 
their  number,  resting  satisfied  with  a 
general  understanding  "  that  assemblies 
should  break  up  in  such  season  that 
people  dwelling  a  mile  or  two  off  might 
be  at  home  before  late  night-fall." 

With  the  British  troops  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary period  came  the  first  American 
theatrical  performances,  —  given  by  the 
redcoats  as  simple  matters  of  diversion  in 
their  rather  stupid  existence.  The  more 
worldly-minded  of  the  colonists  were  to 
some  extent  affected  by  the  curiosity,  at 
least,  which  these  plays  awakened. 

Instruction  by  means  of  lectures  had 
always  been  a  favorite  method  among 
New  Englanders,  so  much  so  that  when 


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theatrical  plays  were  later  attempted  in 
Boston,  during  the  autumn  of  1792,  it 
was  found  necessary  to  call  them  "  moral 
lectures"  in  order  to  secure  public  interest. 
College  professors  taught  their  classes 
by  means  of  lectures,  and  instruction  in 
the  professional  schools  of  law,  medicine, 
and  theology  was  also  largely  given  in  the 
same  manner.  These  professors  and  the 
clergymen  were  called  upon  to  deliver  not 
a  few  such  lectures  for  the  benefit  of  the 
various  communities,  while  the  lawyer,  if 
the  town  had  one,  was  also  expected  to 
assist,  and  the  village  doctor,  seldom  a 
ready  writer,  now  and  then  contributed  a 
discourse  of  a  practical  if  less  pretentious 
character.  Almost  any  one,  therefore, 
possessed  of  an  idea  and  the  least  facility 
in  expression  was  quite  certain  of  being 
asked  to  deliver  himself  of  it  in  public, 
for  a  fee  ranging  from  five  to  fifty  dollars, 
according  to  the  standing  of  the  individual 
and  the  financial  ability  of  the  society  em- 
ploying him.  A  high  city  official,  a  gen- 
tleman with  one  lecture  and  that  verbose 


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and  extravagrant,  boasted  at  the  end  of  a 
season  during  this  period,  that  "he  had 
delivered  his  one  lecture  ninety  times,  and 
for  ten  dollars  at  each  delivery."  Wen- 
dell Phillips  at  a  later  date  delivered  his 
famous  lecture  on  "  The  Lost  Arts  "  two 
thousand  times,  we  are  told. 

He  could  name  his  own  time  and  price 
for  it :  audiences  were  carried  away  and 
were  in  almost  a  constant  state  of  ap- 
plause, during  its  delivery  ;  every  para- 
graph seemed  to  elicit  especial  response. 
When  asked  by  a  near  friend  how  it  was 
possible  to  secure  such  an  effect  at  the 
close  of  each  sentence,  the  lecturer  re- 
plied that  "when  he  found  that  one 
form  would  not  do  it,  he  altered  the 
phraseology  ;  that  not  succeeding,  he  made 
other  changes,  or  substituted  another 
paragraph,  until  the  whole  was  satisfac- 
tory." 

The  mention  of  Phillips  of  course 
brings  us  to  the  time  of  the  New  England 
lyceum.  Agencies  were  established  to  or- 
ganize the  required  courses  of  lectures,  and 


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for  a  percentage  to  attend  to  all  necessary 
details.  It  was  not  "  good  form  "  in  an 
influential  family  not  to  encourage  some 
one  or  more  of  these  lecture  courses,  and 
generally  the  tickets  were  readily  sold  at 
prices  which  insured  pecuniary  success. 
From  1825  to  1850  or  later  lectures  may 
be  said  to  have  been  epidemic  in  New 
England.  Various  organizations,  like  the 
Mercantile  Library  Association  in  Boston 
(composed  of  young  merchants  and  clerks), 
the  Society  for  the  Diffusion  of  Useful 
Knowledge,  the  Mechanics'  Institutes  and 
others,  provided  courses  of  lectures  to  re- 
plenish their  funds.  At  times  the  people 
seemed  to  become  satiated  with  the  more 
serious  discourses,  and  various  novelties 
were  introduced  to  sustain  the  public  in- 
terest, like  the  interpolation  of  a  concert 
or  two  or  the  exhibition  of  a  juggler.  In 
some  localities  really  solid  work  was  at- 
tempted, like  continuous  courses  on  liter- 
ary, historical,  or  scientific  subjects.  These, 
however,  were  usually  but  partially  suc- 
cessful financially,  and  it  was  difficult  to 


THE  ODEON 

Corner  of  Federal  and  Franklin  Streets,  Boston 


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obtain  lecturers  of  sufficient  ability  or 
public  spirit  to  undertake  such  ventures. 

The  prejudice  against  the  theatre  had 
not  subsided,  but  was  rather  intensified. 
The  theatre  itself,  as  it  was  then  con- 
ducted, was  largely  responsible  for  this. 
Boston's  first  building  especially  appro- 
priated to  public  amusements  was  Concert 
Hall,  erected  in  1756,  at  the  head  of  Han- 
over Street.  It  was  designed  for  concerts, 
dancing,  and  other  entertainments,  and  was 
doubtless  the  place  in  which,  for  the  most 
part,  the  British  officers  conducted  their 
amusements  while  in  possession  of  the 
town.  A  law  of  the  province,  passed  in 
1750,  prohibited  theatrical  exhibitions 
under  a  severe  penalty.  This  law  was 
considered  "unconstitutional,  inexpedient, 
and  absurd " ;  and  years  later,  in  obedi- 
ence to  public  wishes,  the  theatre  in  Fed- 
eral Street,  at  the  corner  of  Franklin,  was 
built  and  opened  —  in  1794. 

During  the  time  when  the  English  held 
Boston,  the  North  End,  in  the  vicinity 
of  Copp's  Hill  and  North  Square,  was 


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the  court  end  of  the  town.  But  after  the 
Revolution  the  neighborhood  in  which 
the  theatre  was  built  had  become  the  resi- 
dential centre  of  the  wealth  and  refine- 
ment of  Boston.  Near  here  were  the 
Federal  Street  Church  (afterward  Dr. 
Channing's)  and  Trinity  Church  on  Sum- 
mer Street,  besides  the  only  Roman 
Catholic  Church  in  the  city,  and  its 
bishop's  house,  together  with  many  hand- 
some private  residences. 

In  1796  the  Haymarket  Theatre  was 
built  at  the  foot  of  the  Common,  near 
Avery  Street;  later  the  Washington, 
Tremont,  Lion,  and  National  Theatres 
and  the  Howard  Athenaeum,  the  latter  on 
the  site  of  Miller's  Tabernacle,  a  great 
barn-like  structure,  occupied  by  the  Mil- 
lerites,  who  flourished  in  the  early  forties. 
These  theatres  were  all  constructed  after 
the  manner  of  the  English  theatres  of  that 
period  —  with  "  refreshment  rooms  "  so 
called,  which  were  in  reality  common  grog- 
shops, contiguous  to  them  or  within  easy 
access,  with  an  entrance  directly  from  the 


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pit  and  the  first  row  of  boxes.  Free  ad- 
mission was  granted  to  women  to  the 
"third  row."  To  make  no  mention, 
therefore,  of  the  performances  of  the 
poor,  degraded  stage,  these  places  were 
in  themselves  sufficiently  demoralizing  to 
condemn  them  to  the  religious  and  re- 
spectable of  the  community.  This  reli- 
gious element  resolved  "that  the  theatre 
must  go,  and  go  forever."  The  Federal 
Street  Theatre  had  already  been  taken  by 
the  Boston  Academy  of  Music  ;  and  under 
the  direction  of  the  president,  Mr.  Samuel 
A.  Eliot  (the  father  of  President  Eliot  of 
Harvard  University),  changed  into  the 
Odeon.  The  National,  or  Warren,  sub- 
sequently died  of  inanition.  The  Tre- 
mont  Theatre  building  still  remained. 
The  Baptist  denomination  secured  this, 
and  made  it  over  into  Tremont  Temple, 
dedicating  it  in  1839,  "henceforth  to  re- 
ligious purposes,"  while  it  was  openly 
declared  that  "there  was  never  to  be 
another  theatre  in  Boston." 

These,  then,  were  the  conditions  of  the 


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educational  and  amusement  life  of  New 
England  preceding  the  foundation  of  the 
Lowell  Institute.  People  were  yet  de- 
sirous of  intermingling  instruction  with 
their  diversions,  but  much  profitless  work 
was  being  done  in  the  miscellaneous,  de- 
sultory lecturing  which,  after  the  theatres 
were  closed,  seemed  the  only  recreation 
left  to  the  people.  During  the  winter  of 
1837-38  twenty-six  courses  of  lectures 
were  delivered  in  Boston,  not  including 
those  courses  which  consisted  of  less  than 
eight  lectures ;  and  it  is  estimated  that 
they  were  attended  by  about  thirteen 
thousand  persons.  These  facts  sufficiently 
show  the  importance  and  the  popularity 
of  the  lectures  at  this  time  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Boston,  and  the  questions  of 
reform  and  improvement  involved. 

In  two  points  this  lecture  system  was 
evidently  defective.  First,  the  means  of 
the  organizations  under  which  the  lectures 
were  given  were  usually  too  meagre  to 
induce  men  of  talent  and  broad  culture 
to  undertake  the  preparation  of  thorough 


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and  systematic  courses ;  therefore  the 
work  was  almost  wholly  miscellaneous, 
and  no  thorough  series  upon  any  particu- 
lar branch  of  knowledge  could  be  per- 
manently sustained  under  such  financial 
conditions.  Secondly,  it  was  evident  that 
the  system  contained  no  principle  for  a 
steady  improvement  in  the  nature  of  the 
instruction  it  could  furnish,  unless  it  could 
raise  the  standard  of  the  literary  character 
of  its  work. 

Mr.  John  Lowell,  Jr.,  whose  public 
spirit,  farsightedness,  and  generosity,  al- 
ways exercised  with  the  modesty  of  which 
the  Lowell  Institute  is  but  typical,  was 
the  individual  who  solved  for  New  Eng- 
land the  problem  of  the  higher  lecture  for 
the  average  citizen  —  which  in  reality 
closely  resembles  what  the  leading  col- 
leges and  universities  elsewhere  are  now 
establishing  in  what  is  known  as  univer- 
sity extension.  This  plan  of  Mr.  Lowell's 
was  in  harmony  with  the  New  England 
lecture  system,  yet  went  beyond  it  by 
making  its  work  systematic  and  thorough. 


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The  confiding  of  the  whole  management 
of  the  Institute,  financial  and  intellectual, 
to  one  individual  is  its  most  marked  pe- 
culiarity, distinguishing  it  from  all  other 
similar  endowments.  In  his  will  Mr. 
Lowell  thus  prescribes  :  — 

"  I  do  hereby  constitute  and  appoint  the 
trustees  of  the  Boston  Athenaeum  for  the  time 
being  to  be  visitors  of  the  said  trust  fund,  with 
power  to  require  accounts  of  the  administration 
thereof  and  to  compel  the  appropriation  thereof 
to  the  use  aforesaid,  but  without  any  power  or 
authority  to  prescribe  or  direct  by  whom  the 
said  lectures  shall  be  given,  nor  the  subjects 
thereof;  considering  it  best  to  leave  that  high 
personal  responsibility  upon  the  trustee  or  trus- 
tees of  the  fund  for  the  time  being. 

"  Each  trustee  shall  appoint  his  successor, 
within  a  week  after  his  accession  to  the  office, 
in  order  that  no  failure  of  a  regular  nomination 
may  take  place. 

"  In  selecting  a  successor  the  trustee  shall 
always  choose  in  preference  to  all  others  some 
male  descendant  of  my  grandfather,  John 
Lowell,  provided  there  be  one  who  is  compe- 


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tent  to  hold  the  office  of  trustee,  and   of  the 
name  of  Lowell." 

Mr.  Lowell  came  of  a  distinguished 
New  England  family,  whose  later  descend- 
ants have  at  the  present  day  an  inter- 
national renown  in  the  departments  of 
science  and  law.  Of  John  Lowell,  Jr., 
it  has  been  said  :  "  He  was  a  young  Bos- 
tonian  intended  by  nature  for  a  states- 
man, whom  the  caprice  of  fortune  had 
made  a  merchant." 

The  great-grandfather  of  John  Lowell, 
Jr.,  was  the  first  minister  of  Newburyport. 
His  grandfather,  Judge  John  Lowell,  was 
among  those  who  enjoyed  the  public  con- 
fidence in  the  times  which  tried  men's 
souls,  and  bore  his  part  in  the  greatest 
work  recorded  in  the  annals  of  constitu- 
tional liberty, — the  American  Revolution. 

In  1779  h£  was  chosen  a  member  of 
the  convention  for  framing  a  constitution 
of  state  government. 

He  it  was  who  in  1780  introduced  the 
clause  in  the  Massachusetts  Bill  of  Rights, 


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under  which  the  Supreme  Court  of  Massa- 
chusetts freed  every  slave  in  the  state  who 
sought  his  freedom. 

This  was  the  first  prohibition  of  human 
slavery  in  any  statute  or  constitution  which 
was  ever  written,  and  every  loyal  Ameri- 
can should  be  willing  to  accord  to  Judge 
John  Lowell  his  reverent  gratitude  for 
this  momentous  and  historic  act  of  patriot- 
ism. 

In  1781  he  served  in  the  Continental 
Congress,  —  and  on  the  adoption  of  the 
constitution,  he  was  appointed  by  Wash- 
ington a  judge  of  the  District  Court  of 
the  United  States,  and  later  chief  justice 
of  the  Circuit  Court. 

Of  the  three  sons  of  Judge  Lowell,  the 
eldest,  John,  was  an  eminent  lawyer  and 
writer  upon  political  and  agricultural  sub- 
jects. His  only  son  was  John  Amory 
Lowell.  The  second,  Francis  Cabot 
Lowell,  the  father  of  the  founder  of  the 
Institute,  was  a  merchant,  who  during  the 
War  of  1812  conceived  the  idea  of  manu- 
facturing in  this  country  the  cotton  goods 


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which  he  had  been  wont  to  import  from 
India,  and  by  reinventing  the  power-loom 
did  more  than  any  one  else  to  establish 
that  industry  in  America.  The  young- 
est, the  Rev.  Charles  Lowell,  was  the 
eminent  Boston  minister,  the  father  of 
several  distinguished  children,  the  young- 
est of  whom  was  James  Russell  Lowell. 

John  Lowell,  Jr.,  like  his  father,  was  a 
successful  merchant.  Early  bereft  of 
wife  and  children,  he  passed  the  few 
remaining  years  of  his  life  in  travel,  and 
died  in  Bombay,  March  4,  1836.  He 
was  only  thirty-four  years  of  age  when 
he  made  his  will  giving  half  of  his  prop- 
erty to  the  support  of  public  lectures  for 
the  benefit  of  his  fellow-citizens.  This 
sum  bequeathed  by  Mr.  Lowell,  with  its 
accumulations,  amounted  at  the  time  of 
the  opening  of  the  lectures  to  nearly  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  The 
trustee  appointed  by  the  will  was  Mr. 
John  Amory  Lowell,  a  cousin  and  inti- 
mate friend  of  the  founder,  who  thor- 
oughly justified  the  expectation  of  his 


1 6  The  Lowell  Institute 

kinsman.  When  told  by  his  lawyer  that 
he  could  find  no  one  capable  of  carrying 
out  his  purpose,  Mr.  Lowell  replied,  "  I 
know  the  man."  During  an  administra- 
tion of  more  than  forty  years  John  Amory 
Lowell  had  the  sole  charge  of  the  en- 
dowment, selected  the  lecturers  and  the 
subjects  to  be  treated,  and  managed  the 
finances  with  such  skill  that  the  property 
nearly  doubled  in  his  hands.  Seldom  has 
so  responsible  a  duty  been  imposed  upon 
any  one  man.  But  Mr.  Lowell  was 
rarely  endowed  for  the  position.  To  his 
eminent  qualities  of  strong  sense,  great 
courage,  and  large  acquirement,  which 
enabled  him  to  select  wisely,  he  added 
knowledge  of  affairs  and  great  singleness 
of  purpose.  Modest  and  retiring,  he 
never  appeared  in  the  management  farther 
than  was  absolutely  necessary,  but  was 
content  with  a  silent  authoritative  con- 
trol. 

The  list  of  the  lectures  and  lecturers 
subjoined  will  give  some  idea  of  the 
amount  of  work  involved,  as  well  as  the 


The  Lowell  Institute  17 

extent  of  the  benefit  which  the  commu- 
nity must  have  derived  from  the  estab- 
lishment of  this  noble  institution,  —  of 
which  the  influences  may  be  said  to  have 
only  begun,  since  it  is  to  last  forever. 

By  the  terms  of  the  will,  as  previously 
described,  the  trustee  for  the  time  being 
must  appoint  as  his  successor  some  de- 
scendant of  the  grandfather  of  the  founder 
and  of  the  name  of  Lowell,  if  a  suitable 
one  can  be  found.  Under  the  exercise 
of  this  authority,  the  present  trustee,  Mr. 
Augustus  Lowell,  has  held  the  position 
for  the  past  fifteen  years.  Under  his 
administration  the  work  of  the  Institute 
has  been  extended  by  the  establishment 
of  new  courses  of  lectures,  and  the  en- 
largement of  those  already  founded,  until 
now  there  are  delivered  annually  between 
five  and  six  hundred  lectures,  —  all  under 
Mr.  Lowell's  personal  management.  The 
value  of  bringing  all  these  riches  of 
knowledge  to  the  very  doors  of  Boston 
and  her  suburbs,  without  money  and 
without  price,  is  a  continual  reminder  of 


1 8  The  Lowell  Institute 

the  opulent  wisdom  of  Mr.  John  Lowell, 
Jr.,  in  the  founding  of  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute, and  of  the  integrity  with  which  the 
trust  is  sustained  and  developed  in  influ- 
ence and  power. 

Notable  as  has  been  the  history  of  the 
Lowell  Institute,  it  has  been  unusually 
fortunate  in  the  management  of  affairs  in 
its  relations  with  the  public.  These  duties 
have  been  delegated  to  one  named  the 
curator  by  Mr.  John  Amory  Lowell,  the 
first  trustee,  and  therefore  so  termed  at 
the  present  time.  The  first  curator,  who 
served  for  three  years,  was  Dr.  Jeffries 
Wyman,  the  eminent  comparative  anato- 
mist, whose  early  death  took  from  the 
ranks  of  American  science  one  of  its  most 
brilliant  and  thorough  students ;  of  him 
James  Russell  Lowell  has  said :  — 

"  He  widened  knowledge  and  escaped  the  praise; 
He  wisely   taught  because   more  wise   to 

learn ; 
He   toiled    for  Science,  not   to   draw  men's 

gaze, 
But  for  her  lore  of  self-denial  stern." 


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The  Lowell  Institute  19 

Associated  with  him  from  the  com- 
mencement, and  his  successor  after  1842, 
was  Dr.  Benjamin  E.  Cotting,  who  for  a 
period  of  fifty-eight  years  (until  his  death 
May  22,  1897 — in  his  eighty-fifth  year) 
attended  from  the  first  discourse  nearly 
every  lecture  delivered,  and  had  the  re- 
sponsibility of  serving  Mr.  John  Amory 
Lowell  and  his  son  and  successor  in  the 
administration  of  the  business  connected 
with  the  lectures,  including  the  advertis- 
ing and  distribution  of  tickets,  and  the 
arrangements  in  the  several  halls  in  which 
the  lectures  have  been  given.  These  duties 
require  a  man  of  affairs  and  ready  adapt- 
ability, acquainted  with  physical  science 
and  modes  of  lecture  demonstration,  to- 
gether with  a  readiness  to  catch  the  pe- 
culiarities of  the  lecturers  and  to  make 
for  each  all  necessary  arrangements  in  a 
way  satisfactory  to  him. 

In  Dr.  Cotting  all  these  essentials  were 
united,  and  the  Lowell  Institute  was  most 
judicious  in  retaining  in  its  service  for  more 
than  half  a  century  this  gentleman,  whose 


2O  The  Lowell  Institute 

position  in  his  profession  of  medicine  and 
surgery  was  of  the  highest,  not  only  in  its 
practice,  but  in  the  life  and  literature  of  his 
profession,  —  he  having  been  successively 
secretary,  councillor,  orator,  and  president 
of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society. 

Dr.  Getting  was  ever  recognized  as  a 
gentleman  of  rare  business  instincts  and 
calm  judgment,  interblended  with  most 
gracious  social  qualities,  which  rendered 
his  official  relations  with  the  leading  men 
of  America  and  the  Old  World  alike 
pleasing  to  the  lecturers  and  valuable  to 
the  Lowell  Institute. 

In  April,  1897,  William  Thompson 
Sedgwick,  professor  of  biology  in  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
succeeded  to  the  curatorship,  Dr.  Cotting 
having  resigned  this  office  on  account  of 
advancing  age  and  infirmities.  Professor 
Sedgwick's  association  with  the  Lowell 
Free  Courses  in  the  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, and  his  familiarity  with  scientific 
and  other  educational  developments  made 
his  appointment  logical. 


The  Lowell  Institute  21 

On  the  evening  of  December  31,  1839, 
the  last  day  of  the  year,  an  interesting  dis- 
course was  given  in  the  Odeon,  which 
seated  about  two  thousand  persons,  by 
Edward  Everett,  consisting  of  a  memoir 
of  Mr.  John  Lowell,  Jr.,  together  with 
some  anticipatory  suggestions  of  the  value 
of  such  an  institution.  This  discourse 
was  repeated  on  the  evening  of  January  2, 
1840.  Then  followed  the  regular  courses 
in  a  manner  similar  to  that  which  has 
since  prevailed ;  and  the  Lowell  Institute 
was  established. 

The  first  lectures  were  a  course  given 
by  Professor  Benjamin  Silliman  of  Yale 
College,  on  geology.  Mr.  Silliman  was 
at  that  time  one  of  the  most  noted  of 
American  lecturers,  a  man  prominent  in 
science,  but  whose  reputation  abroad  was 
perhaps  chiefly  due  to  his  long  and  able 
management  of  the  periodical  known  as 
Silliman  s  Journal.  So  great  was  his  popu- 
larity, that  on  the  giving  out  of  tickets  for 
his  second  course,  on  chemistry,  the  fol- 
lowing season,  the  eager  crowd  filled  the 


22  The  Lowell  Institute 

adjacent  streets  and  crushed  in  the  win- 
dows of  the  "  Old  Corner  Book  Store," 
the  place  of  distribution,  so  that  provi- 
sion for  this  had  to  be  made  elsewhere. 
To  such  a  degree  did  the  enthusiasm  of 
the  public  reach  at  that  time  in  its  desire 
to  attend  these  lectures,  that  it  was  found 
necessary  to  open  books  in  advance  to  re- 
ceive the  names  of  subscribers,  the  num- 
ber of  tickets  being,  distributed  by  lot. 
Sometimes  the  number  of  applicants  for  a 
single  course  was  eight  or  ten  thousand. 

From  the  advertisements  of  those  days 
we  find  that  tickets  were  distributed,  ac- 
cording to  necessity,  to  those  who  held 
numbers  divisible  by  3,  4,  or  5.  This  plan 
was  followed  until  the  number  of  appli- 
cants did  not  much  exceed  the  number 
of  seats.  When  this  occurred,  the  tickets 
were  advertised  to  be  ready  for  delivery, 
to  adults  only,  on  a  certain  date.  At  the 
time  and  place  appointed  a  line  was  formed, 
that  the  first  comers  might  be  the  first  re- 
ceivers of  tickets.  For  some  years  past 
a  large  hall  has  been  secured,  capable  of 


The  Lowell  Institute  23 

receiving  under  cover  several  thousand 
persons  at  a  time,  —  so  that  applicants,  no 
matter  how  many  or  how  eager,  can  be 
arranged  in  line  and  receive  their  tickets 
in  the  order  of  their  coming. 

The  several  lecture  courses,  with  time, 
place,  and  conditions  for  obtaining  tickets, 
are  announced  in  certain  Boston  news- 
papers, usually  at  least  a  week  in  advance 
of  each  course.  Such  tickets,  with  re- 
served seats,  are  good  for  the  entire 
course,  but  always  to  be  shown  at  the 
door.  There  are  a  limited  number  of 
admission  tickets,  without  reserved  seats ; 
while  admission  to  single  lectures  may 
also  usually  be  obtained  at  the  hall  by 
waiting  in  line  for  a  few  moments  just 
before  the  lecture. 

During  the  season  of  1895-96,  a  some- 
what larger  privilege  was  granted  citizens, 
in  obtaining  course  tickets,  by  the  an- 
nouncement in  connection  with  the  adver- 
tisement of  lectures  that  any  tickets  with 
reserved  seats,  which  remained  after  the 
line  distribution,  could  be  secured  by  appli- 


24  The  Lowell  Institute 

cants  who  enclosed  stamped  and  addressed 
envelopes  to  the  lecture  management. 
This  method  has  proved  a  great  conven- 
ience to  the  public,  and  larger  audiences 
have,  in  consequence,  greeted  the  lecturers 
since  this  additional  favor  was  bestowed. 

To  prevent  interruption  and  secure  a 
quiet  audience,  certain  rules  were  adopted : 
first,  the  closing  of  the  hall  doors  the 
•moment  a  lecturer  began  speaking,  and 
keeping  them  closed  until  he  had  con- 
cluded. This  rule  was  at  first  resisted  to 
such  a  degree  that  a  reputable  gentleman 
was  taken  to  the  lockup  and  compelled  to 
pay  a  fine  for  kicking  his  way  through  an 
entrance  door.  Finally  the  rule  was  sub- 
mitted to,  and  in  time  praised  and  copied 
—  as,  in  certain  measure,  at  the  Boston 
Symphony  concerts.  The  lectures  were 
also  limited  to  one  hour ;  and  in  general 
the  audiences  have  gradually  been  induced 
to  applaud  the  lecturer  only  when  he  enters 
and  retires. 

The  lectures  were  given  in  the  Odeon 
from  their  establishment  in  1839  until 


MARLBORO   HOTEL 
Showing  passageway  to  the  Marlboro  Chapel 


The  Lowell  Institute  25 

1846,  when  that  building  was  converted 
into  warehouses.  The  following  season 
they  were  given  in  Tremont  Temple. 
After  this  they  were  held  in  Marlboro 
Chapel,  previously  a  lecture-room  formed 
of  an  L  of  Marlboro  Hotel  on  Wash- 
ington Street.  The  hall  itself  was  in 
that  mysterious  square  which  only  a 
born  Bostonian  can  understand.  It  was 
bounded  by  Washington  and  Tremont, 
Winter  and  Bromfield  streets.  Music 
Hall  was  in  the  same  square,  and  a  close 
neighbor  to  the  Marlboro  Chapel.  The 
entrance  to  the  lecture-room  was  through 
an  unattractive  arched  passageway,  which 
all  Bostonians  of  mature  age  will  remember 
for  its  aromatic  odors  and  the  resonant 
notes  of  practising  musicians  thereabout. 

This  chapel  had  for  some  time  previous 
been  the  rendezvous  of  all  the  ultra  asso- 
ciations, which  found  it  difficult  to  obtain 
lecture-rooms  elsewhere,  being  composed, 
as  Dr.  Holmes  puts  it,  of  "  lean,  hungry, 
savage  anti-everythings."  In  1846  it 
was  thoroughly  remade  into  a  reputable 


26  The  Lowell  Institute 

lecture-room ;  and  in  it  the  Lowell  lect- 
ures were  given  until  1879,  when  again 
commercialism  invaded  and  it  was  closed 
to  educational  purposes  and  given  up  to 
traffic. 

The  best  available  hall  was  then  found 
after  much  search  to  be  Huntington  Hall, 
in  the  Rogers  Building  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology.  Its  situ- 
ation was  thought,  in  1879,  to  be  quite 
removed  from  the  lecture  centre  of  the 
city  ;  now  it  is  not  only  such  a  centre, 
but  nearly  the  centre  of  population  of  the 
city  itself. 

In  the  spring  of  1850  Mr.  John  Amory 
Lowell,  the  first  trustee,  wished  to  estab- 
lish in  connection  with  the  Lowell  Institute 
a  free  drawing-school.  Dr.  Cotting  was  re- 
quested to  undertake  this  work  during  Mr. 
Lowell's  absence  in  Europe.  Two  plans 
were  devised  and  presented  in  writing  to 
Mr.  Lowell.  He  selected  the  one  which 
was  afterward  followed,  principally  on  the 
ground  of  its  being  the  more  elementary. 
It  was  peculiar,  in  that  it  required  the 


The  Lowell  Institute  27 

pupil  to  begin  and  continue  through  his 
entire  course  to  draw  from  real  objects 
only  —  "the  round,"  as  it  is  technically 
called,  from  rectangular  forms  up  to  the 
living  models,  and  never  from  copies  or 
"  flat  surfaces."  The  principle  and  plan, 
as  well  as  most  of  the  details,  were  of  the 
curator's  devising.  In  few  drawing-schools 
in  the  country,  if  in  any,  had  "the  round" 
found  any  place  at  all  up  to  that  date,  — 
and  its  exclusive  use  in  none,  so  far  as 
known. 

It  was  not  easy  to  secure  a  suitable 
teacher  willing  to  undertake  to  carry  out 
this  plan.  By  chance  an  artist  was  over- 
heard to  express  at  random  views  which 
were  similar  to  the  curator's.  After  much 
persuasion,  and  with  great  distrust  on  the 
artist's  part,  his  services  were  secured.  He 
proved  a  most  successful  teacher ;  and 
during  its  entire  course  of  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  century  remained  the  school's 
chief.  Mr.  Hollingsworth's  enthusiasm 
was  the  school's  life ;  his  devotion  its  un- 
failing support. 


28  The  Lowell  Institute 

The  school  began  in  the  autumn  of 
1850.  At  first  it  met  with  much  ridicule 
from  professional  teachers,  art  critics,  and 
others;  but  it  soon  grew  popular  with  its 
pupils.  Many  curious  and  amusing  anec- 
dotes might  be  told  of  its  early  history  and 
later  progress.  Prominent  teachers  and 
artists,  some  of  whom  later  became  famous, 
at  times  attended  the  school  to  obtain  its 
peculiar  advantages.  Mr.  Rollings  worth 
was  an  original,  and  his  assistant,  Mr. 
William  T.  Carleton,  had  many  valuable 
parts. 

The  school  was  eminently  successful  in 
establishing  correct  methods  of  drawing, 
and  had  the  satisfaction  of  being  imitated 
all  over  the  country,  almost  to  the  entire 
revolution  in  the  teaching  of  drawing. 
Nowadays  no  school  is  without  its  "real 
objects" — on  its  programme,  if  not  in 
actual  use. 

In  1879,  on  the  loss  of  its  rooms  in 
Marlboro  Chapel,  the  school,  to  the  re- 
gret of  many  students,  came  to  an  honor- 
able end. 


THE  LOWELL  DRAWING-SCHOOL  ROOM 
In  Marlboro  Chapel 


The  Lowell  Institute  29 

From  December  31,  1839,  to  January, 
1898,  there  have  been  given  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Lowell  Institute  four  hun- 
dred and  twenty-seven  regular  courses  of 
lectures,  —  or  four  thousand  and  twenty 
separate  lectures ;  these,  with  those  re- 
peated, bring  the  number  to  four  thousand 
three  hundred  and  twenty-five,  —  all  ab- 
solutely free  lectures,  prepared  by  the  best 
minds  of  the  age,  and  representing  the 
highest  developments  in  all  the  various  de- 
partments of  science,  literature,  and  art. 

In  addition  to  these  there  have  been 
given  five  courses  in  the  name  of  estab- 
lished local  societies  (e.g.  the  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences,  and  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society)  by  representative  mem- 
bers named  by  the  societies  themselves. 
Sixty-one  such  lectures,  added  to  the  num- 
ber of  regular  and  repeated  lectures,  make 
the  grand  total  five  thousand  four  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five,  given  by  three 
hundred  and  fifty-two  different  lecturers. 

Crude  theories  and  plans  for  moral  and 
political  reforms  are  not  to  be  found  in 


jo  The  Lowell  Institute 

the  Lowell  lectures.  The  selection  of 
lectures  and  lecturers  is  made  from  a 
broad  and  comprehensive  knowledge  of 
the  safe  thought  and  intelligent  study  of 
the  time,  and  with  an  active  sympathy 
for  the  varied  interests  of  the  community. 

The  income  of  the  fund,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  one-tenth,  which  must  annually 
be  added  to  the  principal,  is  applied,  in 
strict  accordance  with  the  founder's  de- 
sires, directly  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
lectures,  and  never  has  been,  or  can  be, 
invested  in  buildings.  Hence  the  gen- 
erous remuneration,  which  in  early  days 
was  sometimes  larger  for  a  single  course 
of  lectures  than  the  annual  salary  of  the 
most  distinguished  professor  in  any  Amer- 
ican college  or  university.  The  same 
liberality  is  yet  a  marked  financial  feature 
of  the  Institute,  its  lecture  fees  continuing 
to  be  much  larger  than  those  of  any  other 
American  educational  institution. 

In  the  long  line  of  eminent  men  who 
have  lectured  on  their  several  specialties 
for  the  Lowell  Institute  may  be  mentioned, 


The  Lowell  Institute  31 

in  science,  the  names  of  Silliman,  Lyell, 
Agassiz,  Gray,  Levering,  Rogers,  Cooke, 
Wyman,  Peirce,  Tyndall,  Whitney,  New- 
comb,  Ball,  Proctor,  Young,  Langley, 
Gould,  Wallace,  Geikie,  Dawson,  Cross, 
G.  H.  Darwin,  Farlow,  and  Goodale. 

The  four  gentlemen  who  have  given 
the  largest  number  of  lectures,  all  of 
which  were  illustrated  by  experiments,  are 
Professors  Levering,  Agassiz,  Silliman, 
and  Cooke  —  Lovering  leading  the  list 
with  one  hundred  and  sixty-eight,  followed 
by  Agassiz,  who  gave  one  hundred  and 
sixteen,  —  next  to  whom  is  Silliman,  who 
delivered  ninety-six,  while  Dr.  Cooke  was 
heard  ninety-two  times. 

Among  the  lecturers  on  religious  sub- 
jects are  the  honored  names  of  Palfrey 
and  Walker,  Andrew  P.  Peabody,  J.  L.  Di- 
man,  George  P.  Fisher,  Richard  S.  Storrs, 
Lyman  Abbott,  Mark  Hopkins,  Henry 
Drummond,  and  William  J.  Tucker. 

Literature,  philosophy,  art,  history,  and 
education  have  been  represented  by  men 
like  Edward  Everett,  Sparks,  Felton, 


32  The  Lowell  Institute 

Bowen,  J.  R.  Lowell,  Child,  Whipple, 
Norton,  William  Everett,  Barnard,  Chan- 
ning,  Howells,  Perkins,  Bascom,  Clapp, 
Hale,  Lanciani,  Fiske,  Bryce,  and  Eliot. 

The  course  delivered  by  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  in  1852-53  was  exceptional; 
being  all  freshly  written  lectures,  of  which 
he  said  "  that  the  ink  thereon  had  hardly 
time  to  dry," — and  each  of  which  was 
concluded  with  a  new  and  original  poem. 

James  Russell  Lowell's  course  in  1886- 
87  on  "Early  English  Dramatists"  was 
also  a  memorable  one;  indeed  so  popular 
that  great  difficulty  was  experienced  by 
the  management  in  handling  the  immense 
audiences  which  applied  during  the  even- 
ings without  tickets.  i 

Professor  Drummond's  course,  and  the 
recent  one  by  Edward  Everett  Hale  on 
"The  Local  History  and  Antiquities  of 
Boston,"  have  drawn  perhaps  as  large  and 
enthusiastic  audiences  as  any  in  recent 
years. 

Among  the  many  lecturers  of  the  In- 
stitute, there  is  one  whose  history  is  so 


The  Lowell  Institute  33 

interblended  with  its  own,  that  he  often 
called  himself  "a  child  of  the  Lowell 
Institute  "  ;  and  in  this  close  relationship 
both  Dr.  Josiah  Parsons  Cooke  and  the 
Lowell  Institute  are  to  be  felicitated.  It 
was  the  fulfilment  of  a  relationship  the 
like  of  which  may  have  suggested  itself  to 
the  far-sighted  founder. 

When  a  boy  of  thirteen  years  of  age, 
Josiah  P.  Cooke  —  as  he  told  the  Boston 
schoolmasters  in  his  address  delivered  to 
them  in  1878,  on  "The  Elementary 
Teaching  of  Physical  Science"  —  attended 
the  lectures  of  Professor  Silliman  at  the 
Odeon.  He  was  one  among  the  throng 
turned  away  from  the  Old  Corner  Book 
Store,  when  the  distribution  of  tickets 
was  stopped,  at  the  time  the  windows 
were  crushed  in  by  the  eager  appli- 
cants. So  great  was  his  disappointment 
on  being  unable  to  secure  a  ticket,  that 
his  father,  ever  thoughtful,  purchased  from 
a  fortunate  possessor,  for  a  handsome 
price,  his  much-prized  ticket,  that  the 
future  great  chemist  might  attend  these 


34  The  Lowell  Institute 

lectures.  Of  them  Dr.  Cooke  said  :  "  At 
these  lectures  I  received  my  first  taste  of 
real  knowledge,  and  that  taste  awakened 
an  appetite  which  has  never  yet  been 
satisfied.  A  boy's  pertinacity,  favored  by 
a  kind  father's  indulgence,  found  the 
means  of  repeating  in  a  small  way  most 
of  the  experiments  seen  at  the  Lowell 
Institute  lectures,  and  thus  it  came  to 
pass  that  before  I  entered  college  I  had 
acquired  a  real,  available  knowledge  of  the 
facts  of  chemistry.  My  early  tastes  and 
inheritances  were  utterly  at  variance  with 
this  interest  in  science,  which  was  simply 
determined  by  the  associations  which  sat- 
isfied that  natural  thirst  for  knowledge 
which  every  child  experiences  to  a  greater 
or  less  degree,  and  which  I  first  found  at 
the  Lowell  Institute  lectures." 

At  sixteen  years  of  age,  in  the  year 
1844,  the  young  student  entered  Harvard, 
graduating  in  1848.  In  September,  1849, 
after  a  year's  absence  in  Europe,  he  re- 
turned to  Harvard  as  a  tutor  of  mathe- 
matics ;  and  among  his  first  pupils  was 


The  Lowell  Institute  35 

the  present  president  of  the  University. 
At  this  time  no  chemistry  was  being 
taught  to  undergraduates ;  but  within  six 
months  Professor  Cooke  began  to  give 
instruction  in  this  science,  in  connection 
with  his  other  work.  This  continued 
until  December  30,  1850,  when  he  was 
formally  appointed  to  the  professorship 
of  chemistry,  a  position  which  he  held 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life,  a  period  of 
forty-three  years. 

Dr.  Cooke  said  of  his  preparation  for 
this  work :  "  When  I  was  unexpectedly 
called  upon  to  deliver  my  first  course  of 
lectures  in  chemistry,  the  only  laboratory 
in  which  I  had  worked  was  the  shed  of 
my  father's  house,  on  Winthrop  Place, 
Boston,  and  the  only  apparatus  at  my 
command  was  what  this  boy's  laboratory 
contained.  With  these  simple  tools  —  or 
because  they  were  so  simple  —  I  gained 
the  means  of  success  which  determined 
my  career." 

The  first  course  of  American  lectures 
illustrated  by  a  stereopticon  were  those  on 


36  The  Lowell  Institute 

"  Glaciers,"  given  by  Professor  Louis 
Agassiz  at  the  Lowell  Institute,  and  illus- 
trated for  him  by  Dr.  Cooke.  The  "  ver- 
tical lantern "  with  which  Dr.  Cooke 
illustrated  his  own  Lowell  lectures  on 
"The  Chemistry  of  the  Non-Metallic 
Elements,"  in  the  season  of  1855-56, 
was  invented  by  him  for  use  on  this  occa- 
sion. The  lantern  has  since  become  fa- 
mous. But  the  desire  to  serve  the  Lowell 
Institute  was  the  inspiration  of  its  inven- 
tion. In  this  instance  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute, in  having  thus  served  to  develop  the 
genius  of  one  who  so  long  and  success- 
fully honored  America's  leading  university 
and  the  Institute  itself  in  the  successive 
courses  of  scientific  lectures  delivered 
under  its  auspices,  besides  for  many  years 
serving  the  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences 
as  its  president,  reached  the  ideal  of  a  per- 
sonal influence  for  which  the  legacy  was 
provided.  Dr.  Cooke's  association  with  the 
institution  is  full  of  significance ;  and  his 
life-long  impulse  to  emphasize  the  influ- 
ence which  the  endowment  accomplished 


The  Lowell  Institute  37 

for  him  must  ever  be  a  matter  of  grati- 
fication to  the  descendants  of  John 
Lowell. 

Noteworthy  among  the  many  things 
to  be  considered  in  connection  with  the 
Institute  and  its  influence  in  Boston  is 
the  quality  of  the  audiences  which  it 
usually  assembles  for  the  lectures.  They 
are  trained  audiences,  and  the  attention 
and  interest  which  are  given  by  them  to 
continuous  courses  of  even  deep  scien- 
tific lectures  are  remarkable.  This  has 
always  been  recognized  by  the  lecturers, 
and  especially  by  those  from  the  Old 
World,  who  have  often  revised  their  work 
after  their  first  appearance  before  the  In- 
stitute audience ;  this  being  true  even  as 
recently  as  when  Professor  Drummond 
delivered  his  admirable  course,  after  find- 
ing that  he  had  entirely  underestimated 
the  intelligence  of  his  average  listener, 
and  so  rewrote  his  entire  course  after 
his  arrival  in  Boston. 

Another  influence  of  such  an  estab- 
lishment as  the  Lowell  Institute,  which, 


38  The  Lowell  Institute 

though  not  so  obvious  at  first,  is  neverthe- 
less distinct  and  worthy  of  notice,  is  that 
on  the  lecturers  themselves.  One  who  is 
going  to  lecture  must  consider  what  will 
be  his  audience ;  and  if  he  is  a  careful 
scientific  man  he  will,  in  preparing  such 
lectures,  study  to  make  everything  clear, 
by  statements  couched  in  words  of  es- 
tablished meaning  readily  understood  by 
the  average  intelligent  listener  not  par- 
ticularly versed  in  technicalities.  In  other 
words,  learned  and  scientific  men  must 
make  themselves  clearly  understood  by 
the  average  auditor.  This  necessity  is 
an  influence  which  is  most  helpful  for 
lecturer  and  community  alike;  and  this 
good  effect  has  often  been  seen  and  ac- 
knowledged by  the  Institute's  lecturers 
themselves. 

Literature  has  been  enriched  by  the 
publication  in  book  form  of  many  courses 
of  lectures  prepared  and  first  delivered 
for  the  Lowell  Institute.  The  recent  ap- 
pearance of  Professor  Drummond's  work, 
"  The  Ascent  of  Man,"  is  a  single  illus- 


The  Lowell  Institute  39 

tration  of  this  fact  in  this  realm  of 
science. 

The  indirect  influences  of  Mr.  Lowell's 
endowment  are  inestimable ;  for  it  has 
touched  almost  every  educational  insti- 
tution in  the  United  States.  Professor 
Agassiz's  engagement  as  lecturer  for  the 
Lowell  Institute  resulted  in  the  establish- 
ment of  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School 
at  Harvard,  with  this  great  man  as  its 
head. 

In  1842  the  Prince  of  Canino,  a  natu- 
ralist almost  as  ardent  as  Agassiz,  opened 
a  correspondence  with  the  latter  regard- 
ing a  visit  together  to  this  country,  in 
which  Agassiz  was  to  be  the  Prince's 
guest.  Agassiz  was  then  absorbed  in  the 
publication  of  his  great  work  on  fossil 
fishes,  so  that  from  year  to  year  this 
visit  was  postponed.  In  1845  Agassiz 
wrote  the  Prince :  "  I  have  received  an 
excellent  piece  of  news,  which  I  venture  to 
believe  will  greatly  please  you.  The  King 
of  Prussia,  through  the  ever-thoughtful 
mediation  of  Humboldt,  will  grant  me  fif- 


40  The  Lowell  Institute 

teen  thousand  francs  for  our  scientific  mis- 
sion to  America."  At  the  suggestion  of 
Lyell,  a  mutual  friend,  Mr.  John  Amory 
Lowell  in  this  same  year  invited  Agassiz 
to  come  to  Boston  and  deliver  a  course 
of  lectures  before  the  Lowell  Institute. 
Thus  encouraged  by  invitation  and  pecuni- 
ary aid,  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  Octo- 
ber, 1846,  and  in  December  made  his 
debut  in  America  as  a  Lowell  Institute  lec- 
turer. He  was  not  accompanied,  however, 
by  the  Prince  of  Canino,  who  then  found 
this  visit  inexpedient.  Hitherto  Agassiz 
had  been  the  brilliant  discoverer;  now  he 
was  to  become  the  explorer  and  teacher. 
He  lectured,  and  was  delighted  with  his 
audience  and  the  spirit  of  research  that 
his  work  aroused.  The  Lowell  Institute 
was  intended  by  its  founder  to  fertilize 
the  general  mind,  rather  than  to  instruct 
the  select  few ;  consequently  its  audience, 
democratic  and  composed  of  strongly 
contrasted  elements,  had  from  the  first  a 
marked  attraction  for  Agassiz.  A  teacher 
in  the  widest  sense,  who  sought  and  found 


The  Lowell  Institute  41 

his  pupils  in  every  class,  but  who  in  the 
Lowell  Institute's  audience  for  the  first 
time  came  into  contact  with  the  general 
mass  of  the  people  on  this  common 
ground,  this  relation  strongly  influenced 
his  final  resolve  to  remain  in  this  country. 
This  purpose  was  reached  in  1 847  through 
an  offer  of  Mr.  Abbott  Lawrence,  who 
then  expressed  his  willingness  to  found  the 
Lawrence  Scientific  School  in  connection 
with  Harvard  University,  and  to  guarantee 
a  salary  to  Agassiz  as  professor  of  zoology 
and  geology.  Thereupon  Agassiz  ob- 
tained an  honorable  discharge  from  his 
European  engagements,  and  fixed  his 
abode  in  this  country,  associating  him- 
self with  Harvard's  great  scientific  school. 
Agassiz  came  to  Harvard  with  a  new 
method  of  teaching :  he  brought  power 
and  accuracy  of  observation,  and  accuracy 
of  record  ;  this  revolutionized  completely 
the  methods  followed  in  all  departments 
of  the  college ;  thereby  giving  a  new  im- 
pulse to  science  throughout  the  entire 
continent.  In  his  son,  Professor  Alex- 


42  The  Lowell  Institute 

ander  Agassiz,  America  has  also  inherited 
from  Agassiz  a  representative  of  the  high- 
est scientific  ability  and  acquirement. 

Professor  Tyndall's  enthusiasm  for 
American  science  and  scholarship  and 
their  development  led  him,  after  his 
Lowell  lectures,  to  give  back  to  America 
the  ten  thousand  dollars  he  had  received 
for  his  American  lectures  in  gifts  for 
scholarships  to  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, Columbia  College,  and  Harvard 
University.  These  institutions  now  have 
men  studying  abroad  as  the  result  of  Pro- 
fessor Tyndall's  interest  in  higher  educa- 
tion here,  —  a  direct  influence  of  the 
Lowell  Institute  in  having  first  led  Pro- 
fessor Tyndall  to  know  us  and  appreciate 
our  possibilities. 

In  carrying  out  some  other  provisions 
of  the  will,  chiefly  that  in  which  it  is 
stated  "that  besides  the  free  courses 
given  for  the  general  public  there  may  be 
others  given,  more  erudite  and  particular, 
for  students,"  the  trustee,  in  1866,  en- 
tered into  an  engagement  with  the  Massa- 


ROGERS   BUILDING 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 


The  Lowell  Institute  43 

chusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  whereby 
any  persons,  male  or  female,  might,  with- 
out expense  to  themselves,  attend  courses 
of  lectures  for  more  advanced  students ; 
the  appointment  of  the  lecturers  and 
the  subjects  of  the  lectures  to  be  made 
with  the  approval  of  the  trustee.  These 
courses  are  generally  given  in  the  evening, 
in  the  class-room  of  the  professors ;  from 
year  to  year  they  are  more  or  less  varied, 
in  their  entire  scope  including  instruction 
in  mathematics,  mechanics,  physics,  draw- 
ing, chemistry,  geology,  natural  history, 
biology,  English,  French,  German,  history, 
navigation  and  nautical  astronomy,  archi- 
tecture and  engineering.  Of  these  lect- 
ures (known  as  the  Lowell  free  courses 
of  instruction  in  the  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy) there  have  been  given,  during  the 
thirty-one  years  of  their  existence,  four 
thousand  two  hundred  and  sixty-five. 
The  only  conditions  of  attendance  on  these 
courses  are :  first,  candidates  must  have 
attained  the  age  of  eighteen  years ;  sec- 
ondly, their  applications  must  be  made 


44      ,        The  Lowell  Institute 

in  writing,  addressed  to  the  secretary  of 
the  faculty  of  the  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy, specifying  the  course  or  courses  they 
desire  to  attend,  mentioning  their  present 
or  prospective  occupation  and  the  extent 
of  their  preliminary  training. 

For  many  years  past  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute has  also  furnished  instruction  in 
science  to  the  school-teachers  of  Boston, 
both  by  lessons  and  lectures,  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Boston  Society  of  Nat- 
ural History,  and  more  recently  has  fur- 
nished instruction  by  lectures  to  working- 
men  under  the  auspices  of  the  Wells 
Memorial  Workingmen's  Institute,  upon 
practical  and  scientific  subjects.  For  the 
purpose  of  promoting  industrial  art  in 
the  United  States,  the  trustee,  in  1872, 
also  established  the  Lowell  School  ,of 
Practical  Design.  The  corporation  of  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
having  approved  the  purpose  and  general 
plan  of  the  trustee  of  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute, assumed  the  responsibility  of  con- 
ducting it ;  and  in  the  same  year  the  first 


HUNTINGTON   HALL 
Rogers  Building 


The  Lowell  Institute  45 

pupils  were  admitted.  The  expenses  of 
this  school  are  borne  by  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute, and  tuition  is  free  to  all  pupils. 
The  school  occupies  a  drawing-room  and 
a  weaving-room  on  Garrison  Street.  The 
weaving-room  affords  students  opportuni- 
ties for  working  their  designs  into  actual 
fabrics  of  commercial  size,  in  every  variety 
of  material  and  of  texture.  The  room  is 
supplied  with  two  fancy  chain-looms  for 
dress  goods,  three  fancy  chain-looms  for 
fancy  woollen  cassimeres,  one  gingham 
loom  and  one  Jacquard  loom.  The  school 
is  constantly  supplied  with  samples  of  all 
the  novelties  in  textile  fabrics,  such  as 
brocaded  silks,  ribbons,  armures,  and  fancy 
woollen  goods.  Students  are  taught  the 
art  of  making  patterns  for  prints,  ging- 
hams, silks,  laces,  paper  hangings,  carpets, 
oil-cloth,  etc.  The  course  is  of  three 
years'  duration,  and  embraces  (i)  techni- 
cal manipulations  ;  (2)  copying  and  varia- 
tions of  designs ;  (3)  original  designs  or 
composition  of  patterns, ;  (4)  the  making 
of  working  drawings  and  finishing  of  de- 


46  The  Lowell  Institute 

signs.  Instruction  is  given  personally  to 
each  student  over  his  work,  with  occa- 
sional general  exercises.  Information  re- 
garding this  school  is  also  obtained  from 
the  secretary  of  the  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy. The  school  has  been  most  successful, 
and  in  its  practical  results  and  extensive 
influence  is  one  of  the  noblest  and  most 
helpful  of  the  Lowell  Institute's  great 
benefactions. 

Such  is  the  history  of  a  truly  noble  en- 
dowment, which  has  been  well  defined  as 
"  a  public  beneficence  to  be  kept  in  the 
Lowell  family  and  dispensed  by  it  for  the 
public  good." 

The  few  sentences  "penned  with  a  tired 
hand  "  by  John  Lowell,  Jr.,  on  the  top  of 
a  palace  of  the  Pharaohs,  were  the  expres- 
sion of  a  great  and  liberal  spirit  in  its  last 
aspiration  for  the  welfare  of  home  and 
native  land. 

As  we  leave  with  our  readers,  in  con- 
clusion, the  complete  list  of  the  lectures 
and  lecturers  of  these  fifty-nine  years, 
reflecting  that  we  have  seen  only  its  first 


The  Lowell  Institute  47 

half-century  of  existence,  with  the  know- 
ledge that  so  long  as  time  lasts  this 
memorial  of  Mr.  Lowell's  interest  in  our 
higher  life  will  abide,  we  can  but  feel  that 
it  already  has  fulfilled  what  Mr.  Everett 
in  his  opening  address  said  it  must  ac- 
complish. 

"  Let  the  foundation  of  Mr.  Lowell's," 
he  exclaimed,  "  stand  on  the  principles 
prescribed  by  him ;  let  the  fidelity  with 
which  it  is  now  administered  continue  to 
direct  it;  and  no  language  is  emphatic 
enough  to  do  full  justice  to  its  impor- 
tance. It  will  be  from  generation  to  gen- 
eration a  perennial  source  of  public  good, 
a  dispensation  of  sound  science,  of  useful 
knowledge,  of  truth  in  its  important  asso- 
ciations with  the  destiny  of  man.  These 
are  blessings  which  cannot  die.  They  will 
abide  when  the  sands  of  the  desert  shall 
have  covered  what  they  have  hitherto 
spared  of  the  Egyptian  temples ;  and 
they  will  render  the  name  of  Lowell,  in 
all  wise  and  moral  estimation,  more  truly 
illustrious  than  that  of  any  Pharaoh  en- 


48 


The  Lowell  Institute 


graven  on  their  walls.  These  endow- 
ments belong  to  the  empire  of  the  mind, 
which  alone  of  human  things  is  immortal ; 
and  they  will  remain  as  a  memorial  of  his 
Christian  liberality,  when  all  that  is  ma- 
terial shall  have  vanished  as  a  scroll." 


PLAN  OF  HUNT1NGTON  HALL 


A  List  of  Lecturers  and  the  Subjects  of 
their  Lectures  in  the  Lowell  Institute,* 
1839-1: 


No.  of  Lectures  «...    ,  i    *  QQQ  AA  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Dec-  31>  1839-40  Glven 

I  (r)t  Hon.  Edward  Everett,  LL.D. 

Introductory.      Memoir  of  John 

Lowell,  Jr 2 

I2(r)   Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman,  LL.D. 

Geology 24 

8         Rev.  John  G.  Palfrey,  D.D. 

Evidences  of  Christianity       .      .        8 
9(r)  Prof.  Thomas  Nuttall,  A.M. 

Botany 18 

1840-41 

I2(r)   Prof.  Joseph  Lovering,  A.M. 

Electricity  and  Electro-magnetism  24 
iz(r)  Jeffries  Wyman,  M.D. 

Comparative  Anatomy  ...  24 
12  Rev.  James  Walker,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

I2(r)  Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman,  LL.D. 

Chemistry 24 

*  Lectures  maintained  by  the  Lowell  Institute,  but  not  immediately 
under  its  own  management,  are  not  included  in  this  list  (see  pp.  42-46). 
The  titles  of  the  lecturers  and  their  subjects  as  here  given  are  as  a  rule 
those  submitted  for  public  announcement  by  the  lecturers  themselves. 

t  (r)  signifies  that  the  lectures  were  repeated  before  a  second  audience. 


50  The  Lowell   Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

8         Rev.  John  G.  Palfrey,  D.D. 

Evidences  of  Christianity       .     .        8 

1841-42 
iz(r)  Charles  Lyell,  F.R.S. 

Geology 24 

8         Rev.  John  G.  Palfrey,  D.D. 

Evidences  of  Christianity       .      .        8 
12  (r)   Prof.  Joseph  Levering,  A.M. 

Mechanical  Laws  of  Matter  .      .      24 
12         Rev.  James  Walker,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

I2(r)  Prof.  Benjamin  Silliman,  LL.D. 

Chemistry 24 

1842-43 

I2(r)  Prof.  J.  Lovering,  A.M. 

Astronomy 24 

12  Prof.  Jared  Sparks,  LL.D. 

American  History 12 

12  Prof.  J.  Walker,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

I2(r)  Prof.  B.  Silliman,  LL.D. 

Chemistry 24 

1843-44 
1 2  (r)  George  R.  Glidden,  Esq. 

Ancient  Egypt      .....     24 


The  Lowell  Institute  51 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12  (r)  Prof.  J.  Levering,  A.M. 

Optics 24 

12  Pres.  Mark  Hopkins,  D.D. 

Evidences  of  Christianity  .  .  12 
I2(r)  Prof.  Asa  Gray,  M.D. 

Botany 24 

1844-45 

1 2  (r)  Arthur  Gilman,  Esq. 

Architecture 24 

I2(r)  Prof.  Henry  D.  Rogers,  F.G.S. 

Geology 24 

12  Prof.  Alonzo  Potter,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

I2(r)  Prof.  Asa  Gray,  M.D. 

Botany 24 

1845-46 

I2(r)  Charles  Lyell,  Esq.,  F.R.S. 

Geology 24 

1 2  (r)   i .  Lieut.  H.  W.  Halleck,  United  States 
Army. 

The  Military  Art 13 

12  (r)  Prof.  Asa  Gray,  M.D. 

Botany 24 

12  (r)  Prof.  Joseph  Lovering,  A.M. 

Astronomy 24 


52  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  1  QACAI*  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12  (r)  Prof.  Henry  D.  Rogers,  F.G.S. 

Geology 24 

12         Rt.  Rev.  A.  Potter,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

12  (r)  Prof.  Louis  Agassiz,  M.D. 

The  Plan  of  Creation  as  shown 
in  the  Animal  Kingdom.     One 

French  Lecture 25 

1 2  (r)  Prof.  O.  M.  Mitchell. 

Astronomy 24 

1 2         Geo.  S.  Hillard,  Esq. 

Life  and  Writings  of  Milton  .      .      12 

1847-48 

1 2  (r)  Prof.  Eben  N.  Horsford. 

Chemistry 24 

12          Rev.  Alonzo  Potter,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

1 2  (r)  Prof.  L.  Agassiz, 

Ichthyology 24 

8         Francis  Bowen,  A.M. 

Systems  of  Philosophy  as  affect- 
ing Religion 8 

1848-49 

1 2  (r)  Prof.  Adolphus  L.  Kceppen. 

Ancient  and  Modern  Athens       .     24 


The  Lowell  Institute  53 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2  (r)  Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Comparative  Embryology      .      .      24 
12  (r)   Prof.  Jeffries  Wyman,  M.D. 

Comparative  Physiology  ...      24 
12         Prof.  Francis  Bowen,  A.M. 

Application  of  Ethical  Science  to 

the  Evidences  of  Religion  .     .      12 
1 2  (r)  Prof.  Henry  D.  Rogers. 

Application  of  Science  to  the  Use- 
ful Arts 24 

1849-50 
I2(r)  Prof.  Wm.  H.  Harvey,  M.D. 

Cryptogamia 24 

12         Rt.  Rev.  Alonzo  Potter,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

1 2         Geo.  T.  Curtis,  Esq. 

Constitution  of  the  United  States     1 2 
1 2  (r)   Prof.  Edward  Lasell. 

Physical  Forces 24 

12  (r)  Prof.  James  F.  W.  Johnston,  F.R.S. 

Agriculture 24 

1850-51 
12         Prof.  Francis  Bowen,  A.M. 

Political  Economy       .      .      .      .      12 
12         Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Functions  of  Life  in  Lower  Ani- 
mals .  1 2 


54  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12      Rev.  Geo.  W.  Blagden,  D.D. 

Evidences  of  Revealed  Religion  .      1 2 
12      Prof.  Arnold  Guyot,  Ph.D. 

Physical  Geography    .     .     .     .      12 

1851-52 
12      Rev.  Orville  Dewey,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion.      "  Problem  of 

Human  Destiny  "  .      .      .      .      12 
12      Prof.  C.  C.  Felton,  LL.D. 

Greek  Poetry 12 

12      B.  A.  Gould,  Jr.,  Ph.D.    The  Progress  of 
Astronomy    in    the    last     Half- 
century  12 

12      Francis  Bowen,  A.M. 

Origin  and  Development  of  the 
English  and  American  Consti- 
tutions   12 

1852-53 
12      Sir  Charles  Lyell,  F.R.S. 

Geology,  etc 12 

1 2       Chas.  B.  Goodrich,  Esq. 

Science  of  Government,  etc.       .      1 2 
12      Rt.  Rev.  Alonzo  Potter,  D.D. 

Natural  Religion 12 

12      Prof.  C.  C.  Felton. 

Life  of  Greece  .     .  12 


The  Lowell  Institute  55 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

ix      Dr.  O.  W.  Holmes. 

English     Poetry    of    the     191)1 
Century 12 

1853-54 

10       Fellows    of    the    American    Academy    of 

Arts  and  Sciences    .      .     .     .      10 
(*)     Prof.  Joseph  Levering. 

What  is  Matter  ? 
(^)     Prof.  Joseph  Levering. 
What  are  Bodies  ? 
(f)      Charles  Jackson,  Jr. 

History  of  the  Useful  Arts. 
(</)    Prof.  H.  L.  Eustis. 

The  Britannia  Bridge. 
0)      Prof.  J.  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

Light. 
(/)    Prof.  A.  Guyot. 

Psychological  and  Physical  Char- 
acters of  the  Nations  of  Europe 
compared   with    those    of  the 
American   People. 
(£)     Prof.  A.  Guyot. 

The  same  subject  continued. 
(£)     Dr.  A.  A.  Gould. 

Aquatic  Life. 
(/)     Prof.  Joel  Parker. 

The  Science  of  the  Law. 


56  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

(y)     Prof.  H.  D.  Rogers. 

The  Arctic  Regions. 


12      Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Natural  History 12 

12       Prof.  J.  Lovering. 

Electricity 12 

4      E.  H.  Davis. 

Mounds  and  Earthworks  of  the 

Mississippi  Valley  ....        4 
12       Rev.  Orville  Dewey. 

Problem  of  Human  Destiny  .     .      12 

1854-55 

12      Prof.  C.  C.  Felton. 

On  the  Downfall  and  Resurrec- 
tion of  Greece 12 

12      Hon.  John  G.  Palfrey. 

New  England  History     .      .  12 

24      James  Russell  Lowell. 

English  Poetry 24 

6      Rev.  Frederic  H.  Hedge. 

Mediaeval  History      ....       6 

1855-56 

1 2      Rev.  Orville  Dewey. 

Education  of  the  Human  Race    .      1 2 


The  Lowell  Institute  57 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12      Rev.  W.  H.  Milburn. 

Early  History  and  Settlement  of 

the  Mississippi  Valley  ...      12 
6       Geo.  W.  Curtis. 

Contemporaneous  English  Fiction       6 
12      Prof.  J.  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

Chemistry    of  the    Non-metallic 

Elements 12 

1 2      Prof.  E.  Vitalis  Scharb. 

The  Great  Religious  and  Philo- 
sophical Poems  of  Modern 
Times  .  1 2 


1856-57 

12       Dr.  Geo.  W.  Burnap. 

Anthropology 12 

6      Prof.  Guglielmo  Gajani. 

Early  Italian  Reformers   ...        6 
6       Lieut.  M.  F.  Maury. 

Winds  and  Currents  of  the  Sea  .        6 
12      Rev.  Henry  Giles. 

Human  Life  in  Shakespeare   .      .      12 
6      Dr.  David  B.  Reid. 

Ventilation  and  Acoustics      .      .        6 
12       Rev.  Wm.  R.  Alger. 

The  History  of  the  Doctrine  of  a 
Future  Life  .  1 2 


58  The  Lowell   Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12       Prof.  Wm.  B.  Rogers. 

Elementary  Laws  of  Physics .      .      12 


1857-58 

12      Rev.  Henry  W.  Bellows. 

Treatment  of  Social  Diseases       .      12 
1 2       Reinhold  Solger. 

History  of  the  Reformation   .      .      12 
1 2       Rev.  Thomas  T.  Stone. 

English  Literature       ....      12 
12       Prof.  Francis  Bowen. 

Practical  English  Philosophers  and 
Metaphysicians  from  Bacon  to 
Sir  Wm.  Hamilton  .  .  12 

1 2      Rev.  John  Lord. 

Lights  of  the  New  Civilization    .      12 
4      Dr.  Isaac  Ray. 

Mental  Hygiene   .....        4 

1858-59 

12       Prof.  F.  D.  Huntington. 

On  the  Structure,  Relations,  and 
Offices  of  Human  Society  — 
as  illustrating  the  Power,  Wis- 
dom, and  Goodness  of  the 
Creator  .  1 2 


The  Lowell  Institute 


59 


No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12       Prof.  William  B.  Rogers. 

On  Water  and  Air  in  their  Me- 
chanical, Chemical,  and  Vital 

Relations 12 

12       Prof.  S.  G.  Brown. 

British  Orators 12 

8       Rev.  William  R.  Alger. 

Poetical  Ethics 8 

12       Edwin  P.  Whipple. 

The    Literature    of  the    Age    of 
Elizabeth 12 

1859-60 
12      Prof.  C.  C.  Felton. 

Constitution     and      Orators     of 

Greece 12 

1 2       Dr.  Reinhold  Solger. 

Rome,  Christianity,  and  the  Rise 

of  Modern  Civilization      .      .      12 
1 2      Rev.  Thomas  Hill. 

Mutual  Relation  of  the  Sciences  .      1 2 
12       Prof.  Joseph  Lovering. 

Astronomy 12 

12      Rev.  Henry  Giles. 

Social  Culture  and  Character      .      1 2 

1860-61 
12       Rev.  James  Walker. 

Philosophy  of  Religion     ...      12 


6o  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  ^Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12       Hon.  George  P.  Marsh. 

Origin  and  History  of  the  English 

Language 12 

I  2       Rev.  Mark  Hopkins. 

Moral  Philosophy       .      .      .      .      12 
12       Prof.  Benjamin  Peirce. 

Mathematics  in  the  Cosmos  .      .      12 
1 2       Prof.  Josiah  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

Chemistry  of  the  Atmosphere 
as  illustrating  the  Wisdom, 
Power,  and  Goodness  of  God  1 2 

1861-62 
12       Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Methods    of    Study    in    Natural 

History 12 

12      Rev.  Geo.  E.  Ellis. 

Natural  Religion 12 

12       Rev.  Robert  C.  Waterston. 

Art  in  Connection  with  Civiliza- 
tion   12 

12       Prof.  Wm.  B.  Rogers. 

Application  of  Science  to  Art      .      1 2 
12       Guglielmo  Gajani. 

Italian  Independence  .      .      .      .      12 

1862-63 
12       Rev.  Henry  Giles. 

Historic  Types  of  Civilized  Man     1 2 


The  Lowell  Institute  61 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Capt.  William  Steffen. 

Military  Organization  ...  6 
1 2  Charles  Eliot  Norton. 

The  Thirteenth  Century  ...12 
12  Prof.  Geo.  W.  Greene. 

American  Revolution  ...  12 
12  Rev.  Dr.  A.  P.  Peabody. 

Natural  Religion 12 

6  Capt.  E.  Lesdakelyi. 

Field  Service 6 

1863-64 
1 2       Prof.  Henry  W.  Alden. 

Structure  of  Paganism  ...  12 
10  Prof.  Daniel  Wilson. 

Ethnical  Archaeology .  .  .  .  i  o 
6  Rev.  J.  C.  Fletcher. 

Man  and  Nature  in  the  Tropics  6 
1 2  William  Everett. 

The    University    of   Cambridge, 

England 12 

1 2       Prof.  Henry  James  Clark. 

The  Origin  of  Life  ....12 
12  Henry  Barnard. 

National  Education     ....      12 

1864-65 
12      Rev.  Henry  Giles.     The  Divine  Element 

in  Human  Nature  .  12 


62  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2       Rev.  J.  C.  Zachos. 

English  Poets 12 

1 2       Prof.  William  D.  Whitney. 

Language  and  the  Study  of  Lan- 
guage      12 

3       Col.  Francis  J.  Lippitt. 

On  Entrenchments     ....        3 
1 2       Prof.  Josiah  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

The  Sunbeam,  its  Nature  and  its 

Power 12 

6      J.  Foster  Kirk. 

Life  and  Manners  in  the  Middle 

Ages 6 

8      Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Glaciers  and  the  Ice  Period  .  8 


1865-66 

1 2       Prof.  Francis  Bowen. 

Finances  of  the  War  .  .  .  .  12 
6  Rev.  E.  Burgess. 

Indian  Archaeology  ....  6 
12  Richard  Frothingham. 

American  History,  Union  .  .  12 
12  Samuel  Eliot,  LL.D. 

Evidences  of  Christianity  .  .  12 
1 2  Prof.  J.  P.  Lesley. 

Anthropology 12 


The  Lowell  Institute  63 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2      Rev.  J.  C.  Fletcher. 

Pompeii 12 

6  Edward  A.  Samuels. 

Music  and  its  History  ...  6 
12  Prof.  Joseph  Levering. 

Sound  and  Light 12 

12  Prof.  P.  A.  Chadbourne. 

Natural  Religion 12 

4  Dr.  Burt  G.  Wilder. 

The  Silk  Spider  of  South  Carolina       4 


186e-67 

12      Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Brazil 12 

12      Chas.  S.  Peirce,  S.D. 

The  Logic  of  Science  and  Induc- 
tion   12 

12      T.  Sterry  Hunt,  F.R.S. 

Chemical  and  Physical  Geography      I  2 
12      Wm.  P.  Atkinson. 

English  Literature       .     .     .     .      12 
12       E.  Geo.  Squier. 

The  Inca  Empire        .      .      .      .      12 
12      Rev.  E.  Burgess. 

The  Antiquity  of  Man     ...      12 
12      R.  H.  Dana,  Jr.,  LL.D. 

International  Law  12 


64  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12       Rev.  W.  L.  Gage. 

Biblical  Geography     ....      12 

1867-68 
12      Win.  T.  Brigham. 

Volcanic  Phenomena  .      .      .      .      12 
12       Hon.  Emory  Washburn. 

Comparative  Jurisprudence     .      .      12 
12      Mark  Hopkins,  D.D. 

Moral  Science 12 

12       Robert  Morris  Copeland. 

Improved  Agriculture  and  Land- 
scape Gardening     .      .      .      .      12 
12      Capt.  N.  E.  Atwood. 

Fisheries  of  Massachusetts  Bay    .      1 2 
12       Prof.  D'Arcy  W.  Thompson. 

Education 12 

12      Rev.  A.  P.  Peabody. 

Reminiscences  of  European  Trav- 
els     12 

12       Howard  Payson  Arnold. 

The  Great  Exposition,   Paris,  of 
1867 12 

1868-69 

12       Robert  von  Schlagintweit. 

Orography  and  Physical  Geogra- 
phy of  High  Asia  .     .     .     .      12 


The  Lowell  Institute  65 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Alex.  Melville  Bell. 

Elocution 6 

12       Rev.  A.  A.  Livermore. 

The  Debt  of  the  World  to  Chris- 
tianity      12 

1 2      Prof.  J.  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

Electricity.      ......12 

1 2  Geo.  W.  Greene. 

The  American  Revolution     .      .      12 

13  Members  of  Massachusetts  Historical    So- 

ciety :   The  Early  History  of 

Massachusetts 13 

(a)     Robert  C.  Winthrop. 
Introductory. 

(£)     Rev.  George  E.  Ellis. 

Aims  and  Objects  of  the  Founders. 

(r)     Rev.  George  E.  Ellis. 

Treatment  of  Intruders. 

(//)     Samuel  T.  Haven. 

Grants  under  the  Great  Council. 
(*)     William  Brigham. 

The  Plymouth  Colony. 
(/*)    Prof.  Emory  Washburn. 

Slavery  in  Massachusetts. 
(£)     Rev.  Charles  W.  Upham. 

Records  of  Massachusetts. 


66  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

(£)     Prof.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

The  Medical  Profession  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. 
(/')      Samuel  Eliot. 

Efforts  for  the  Indians, 
(y)     Rev.  Chandler  Robbins. 

The  Regicides. 
(£)     Prof.  Joel  Parker. 

Religious  Legislation. 
(/)     Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale. 

Puritan  Politics. 
(»z)    George  B.  Emerson. 

Education  in  Massachusetts. 


12       Rev.  Ed.  A.  Lawrence. 

Providence  in  History      .  .      12 

12       Alexander  Hyde,  A.M. 

Agriculture 12 

6       Dr.  F.  G.  Lemercier. 

Physiology  of  Man,  Animals,  and 
Plants 6 

1869-70 
12      Prof.  L.  Agassiz. 

Deep  Sea  Dredging    .     .     .     .      12 
12      John  Bascom. 

Mental  Philosophy     .      .      .      .      12 
12       Wm.  H.  Channing. 

Progress  of  Civilization     .  .      12 


The  Lowell  Institute  67 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12      W.  H.  Niks. 

Geological  History,  Ancient  and 

Modern 12 

1 2      Hurt  G.  Wilder. 

Hands  and  Feet  of  Mammalia     .      1 2 
12      Rev.  E.  E.  Hale. 

Divine  Method  in  Human  Life  .      12 
12       Members  of  the  American  Social  Science 

Association 12 

O)     C.  C.  Perkins. 

Art  Education  in  the  United  States. 
(J)     F.  L.  Olmsted. 
Public  Parks, 
(f)      Prof.  Francis  Bacon. 

Civilization  and  Health. 
(</)    Gen.  T.  A.  Duncan. 

The  American  System  of  Patents. 
0)     Prof.  D.  C.  Gilman. 

Scientific  Technical  Instruction. 
(/)     Prof.  B.  Peirce. 

The  Coast  Survey. 
(£)     Prof.  Raphael  Pumpelly. 

The  Chinese  Question. 
(£)     E.  L.  Godkin. 

Rationalism  in  Legislation. 
(;')     William  B.  Ogden. 

Material  Growth  of  the  North- 
west. 


68  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

(j)     George  Derby,  M.D. 

Air  in  its  Relation  to  Health. 
(J)  Pres.  T.  D.  Woolsey. 

The  Sphere  of  Public  Power. 
(/)  David  Dudley  Field. 

The  Representation  of  Minorities. 


1 2      Albert  S.  Bickmore. 

China  and  the  Chinese    ...      12 

1870-71 
12      Alex.  M.  Bell. 

Shakespeare  and  his  Plays      .      .      12 
12      Wm.  D.  Howells. 

Italian  Poets  of  Our  Century      .      1 2 
1 2      Edward  S.  Morse. 

Natural  History 12 

12      Thomas  Hill,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Natural  Sources  of  Theology      .      12 
12      Rev.  Geo.  E.  Ellis. 

The  Provincial  History  of  Mas- 
sachusetts      12 

12      Rev.  R.  C.  Waterston. 

-N       The  Rocky  Mountains  and  the 

Sierra  Nevada  of  California     .      1 2 
12      Prof.  Geo.  P.  Fisher. 

The  Reformation 12 

1 2       Pres.  Paul  A.  Chadbourne. 

Instinct  1 2 


The  Lowell  Institute  69 

No.  of  Lectures  i  QTI    "o  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2       Edward  Lawrence. 

The  Philosophy  of  Travel  .  .  12 
12  Alex.  M.  Bell. 

Modern  British  Authors  ...  12 
12  Wm.  T.  Brigham. 

Water  as  a  Geological  Agent  .  1 2 
1 2  Charles  C.  Perkins. 

Grecian  Art 12 

12  Rev.  Mark  Hopkins. 

An  Outside  Study  of  Man  .  .  12 
12  Chas.  F.  Hart. 

Geology  of  Brazil 12 

12  N.  S.  Shaler. 

Geology  of  Mountain  Ranges  .  1 2 
12  Wm.  P.  Atkinson. 

English  Literature       .     .     .     .      12 


1872-73 

6       Prof.  John  Tyndall. 

Light  and  Heat     .     .     .     ,     .       6 
1 2      Walter  Smith. 

Linear  Perspective      .      .     .     .      12 
1 2       Prof.  J.  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

The  New  Chemistry        ...      12 
12      Sanborn  Tenney. 

The  Physical  Structure  and  Re- 
sources of  United  States  1 2 


yo  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12       Isaac  I.  Hayes,  M.D. 

Arctic  Discoveries  .  .  .  .  12 
12  Hon.  B.  G.  Northrop. 

American  and  Foreign  Education  1 2 
12  Prof.  G.  L.  Goodale. 

Vegetable  Physiology  .  .  12 

12  B.  W.  Hawkins. 

Comparative  Anatomy  .  .  12 

4  C.  E.  Brown-Sequard. 

Physiology  of  Mental  Faculties  .       4 

1873-74 
1 2      Richard  A.  Proctor. 

Astronomy 12 

6      J.  T.  Fields,  Esq. 

Modern  English  Literature  .  .  6 
1 2  Prof.  John  Bascom. 

Philosophy  of  English  Literature  12 
12  Prof.  E.  C.  Pickering. 

Practical    Applications    of   Elec- 
tricity     12 

12      Prof.  Samuel  Kneeland. 

Rocky    Mts.,     California,     and 

Sandwich  Islands  .      .      .      .      12 
6      C.  E.  Brown-Sequard,  M.D. 

Nervous  Force 6 

12      Chas.  C.  Perkins,  A.M. 

Italian  Art  1 2 


The  Lowell  Institute  71 

No.  of  Lectures  lfi"d  71;  ^°-  °^  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12       Rev.  A.  P.  Peabody,  D.D. 

Christianity  and  Science  ...      12 
3       Prof.  Bonamy  Price. 

Currency  and  Finance      ...        3 
I  2      John  Trowbridge. 

Recent  Advances  in  Electricity  .      1 2 
6       Prof.  Samuel  Kneeland. 

Iceland 6 

12       C.  F.  Adams,  Jr.,  Esq. 

Railroads  and  their  Development     1 2 
12      Prof.  W.  H.  Niles. 

The    Atmosphere    and   its    Phe- 
nomena   12 

12      Rev.  H.  G.  Spaulding. 

Antiquities    of  Rome,    Christian 
and  Pagan 12 

5  John  T.  Wood,  B.A.,  F.R.S. 

The  Great  Temple  of  Diana       .       5 

1875-76 

I  2       Richard  A.  Proctor. 

Astronomical  Subjects       .  .      12 

1 2      Rev.  W.  L.  Gage. 

Wayside  Notes  in  Palestine  .      .      12 

6  Wm.  A.  Hovey,  Esq. 

Coal,   Steam,   Iron,   Steel,   Gas, 
and  Glass    .  6 


72  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lecture* 

Announced  Given 

6      F.  B.  Hough,  Esq. 

Forestry     .......        6 

12       Prof.  S.  Tenney. 

Geology 12 

12       Prof.  C.  A.  Young. 

Popular  Astronomy     .      .      .      .      12 
12       Prof.  Geo.  P.  Fisher. 

The  Rise  of  Christianity  ...12 
1 2      Rev.  James  T.  Bixby. 

The  Physical  Theory  of  Religious 
Faith  12 


1876-77 

12*    Prof.  C.  E.  Norton. 

Church  Building  in  the  Middle 

Ages 12 

6      Luigi  Monti. 

Modern  Italian  Literature      .      .        6 
12       Pres.  P.  A.  Chadbourne. 

Natural  Religion 12 

1 2       Members   of  the  American  Social  Science 

Association 12 

(4)     Samuel  Eliot. 

Educational  Service  Reform. 


*  Prof.  Norton  began  this  course  the  previous  year,  but  on  account 
of  his  ill  health  the  course  was  postponed,  after  two  lectures,  to  the  season 
of  1876-77. 


The  Lowell  Institute  73 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

(J)     Prof.  B.  Peirce. 

Form,    Law,    and    Plan   in    the 

Universe. 
(<•)     F.  B.  Sanborn. 

The  Province  of  Social  Science. 
(</)     Emory  Washburn. 

American  Jurisprudence. 
(0     David  A.  Wells. 

Financial  Depressions. 
(/)    Pres.  Runkle. 

Russian  Industrial  Education. 
(£•)     Gamaliel  Bradford. 

Comparative  Politics. 
(£)     Prof.  Franz  von  Holtzendorff. 

European  Jurisprudence. 
(/)      Prof.  W.  R.  Nichols. 

Sanitary  Chemistry. 
(»     Carroll  D.  Wright. 

The  Census  of  Massachusetts. 
(£)     Prof.  Henry  Adams. 

Woman's  Rights  in  History. 
(/)     Prof.  F.  A.  Walker. 

The  Labor  question. 

6       Prof.  N.  Cyr. 

Contemporary  France       ...        6 
12      Rev.  H.  G.  Spaulding. 

Roman    and    Pagan  Life  in  the 
First  Century 12 


74  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12      Prof.  Wm.  R.  Ware. 

Architecture 12 

1 2      Rev.  Edward  C.  Guild. 

English    Lyric     Poetry    in     the 

Seventeenth  Century  .  .      12 

1 2      Prof.  Francis  J.  Child. 

Chaucer 12 

1877-78 

12       Prof.  Carl  Semper. 

Conditions  of  Existence  of  Ani- 
mal Life 12 

1 2       Bayard  Taylor. 

German  Literature  .  .  .  .  12 
1 2  Gamaliel  Bradford,  Esq. 

History  of  British  India  ...  12 
12  Wm.  Everett. 

Latin  Poets  and  Poetry  ...  12 
12  Chas.  C.  Perkins. 

History  of  the  Art  of  Engraving  .      1 2 

1878-79 

6      Prof.  Wm.  James,  M.D. 

The  Brain  and  the  Mind  .  .  6 
1 2  Rev.  Selah  Merrill. 

Recent  Explorations  of  the  East  .  1 2 
6  Chas.  S.  Minot,  S.D. 

The  Phenomena  of  Animal  Life  .       6 


The  Lowell  Institute  75 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2      Prof.  J.  P.  Cooke,  Jr. 

Crystals  and  their  Optical  Rela- 
tions        12 

6      Chas.  Wyllis  Elliott. 

Household  Life  and  Art  in  Middle 

Ages 6 

4      Gen.  L.  P.  Di  Cesnola. 

Cyprus,  its  Ancient  Art  and  His- 
tory   4 

1 2       Prof.  Francis  A.  Walker. 

Money 12 

1 2       Prof.  Francis  J.  Child. 

Popular  Ballads  of  England  and 

Scotland 12 

6      Prof.  Benj.  Peirce. 

Ideality  in  the  Physical  Sciences .        6 
12      Rev.  Geo.  E.  Ellis,  D.D. 

The  Red  Man  and  the  White 

Man 12 

6       Thomas  Davidson,  Esq. 

Modern  Greece 6 

1879-80 

6      Prof.  Archibald  Geikie. 

Geographical  Evolution    ...       6 
12       Prof.  Joseph  Levering. 

Physical  Science 12 


j6  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12      Prof.  W.  G.  Farlow. 

Lower  Orders  of  Plant  Life   .      .      12 
1 2       Prof.  John  Trowbridge. 

Philosophy  of  Science       ...      12 
2       Rt.  Hon.  Lyon  Playfair,  M.P.,  F.R.S.,  LL.D. 
(«)  Inosculation  of  the  Arts  and 

Sciences. 

(J)  Public  Health      ....        2 
6      Hon.  Carroll  D.  Wright. 

The    Labor    Question    Ethically 

considered 6 

12      Prof.  W.  H.  Niles. 

Physical  Geography  of  the  Land       1 2 
12      Rev.  J.  F.  Clarke,  D.D. 

Epochs  and  Events  in  Religious 

History 12 

6       Prof.  Henry  W.  Haynes. 

Pre-historic  Archaeology  of  Europe        2 
1 2      Prof.  J.  L.  Diman. 

The  Theistic  Argument   ...      12 
6      Henry  Cabot  Lodge,  Esq. 

English    Colonies    in    America, 
1760 6 

1880-81 

1 2      Prof.  W.  Boyd  Dawkins. 

Primeval  Man  .  ....      1 2 


The  Lowell  Institute  77 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Luigi  Monti. 

Dante,  and  his  Times  and  Works       6 
6      Wm.  F.  Apthorp. 

The    Growth    of    the    Art    of 

Music 6 

12       O.  W.  Holmes,  Jr. 

The  Common  Law     .     .     .     .      12 
4      Geo.  Makepeace  Towle. 

Famous  Men  of  Our  Day      .      .        4 
6      Thomas  Davidson. 

The  History  of  Greek  Sculpture  .       6 
6       Chas.  Carleton  Coffin. 

Machinery  and  Modern  Civiliza- 
tion   6 

12      Rev.  E.  C.  Bolles. 

Historic  London 12 

3       G.  P.  Lathrop. 

Symbolism  of  Color  in  Nature, 
Art,  Literature,  and  Life   .      .        3 

10      Rev.  Richard  Salter  Storrs,  D.D. 

The  Divine  Origin  of  Christianity      I  o 

6      Prof.  M.  Coit  Tyler. 

American  Literature  of  the  Revo- 
lution       6 

i       Rev.    W.    H.    Milburn. 

Recollections  of  Thomas  Carlyle       I 


7 8  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  •,  OQ1    fio  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Edward  A.  Freeman,  D.C.L. 

The  English  People  in  their  Three 

Homes 6 

12       Gamaliel  Bradford,  Esq. 

Modern  Europe,  Social  and  Poli- 
tical   12 

12      Prof.  Simon  Newcomb. 

History  of  Astronomy      ...      12 

8      James  Bryce,  D.C.L.,  M.P. 

Past  and  Present  of  the  Greek  and 
Turkish  East 8 

1 2      Prof.  Edward  S.  Morse. 

Japan 12 

6      Edward  B.  Drew,  A.M. 

China 6 

12      James  F.  Clarke,  D.D. 

The   Comparative    Theology    of 
Ethnic  and  Catholic  Religions     12 

6      Hjalmar  H.  Boyesen,  Ph.D. 

The  Icelandic  Saga  Literature      .       6 

6      Horace  E.  Scudder. 

Childhood  in  Literature  and  Art       6 


The  Lowell  Institute  79 

No.  of  Lectures  IQQO  QQ  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  188<!-8iJ  Given 

1 2      Wm.  B.  Carpenter,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  F.R.S. 
Physical  Geography  of  the  Deep 

Sea 12 

12      Prof.  G.  L.  Goodale. 

Geographical  Botany  ....      12 
6      Prof.  T.  C.  Mendenhall. 

Motion  and  Matter     ....        6 
12       Dr.  Samuel  Kneeland. 

The  Philippine  Islands     ...      12 
3      W.  M.  Davis. 

Storms 3 

2      J.  W.  Fewkes. 

Jelly  Fishes 2 

12       Prof.  Samuel  P.  Langley. 

The  Sun  and  Stars      .     .     .     .      12 
1 2      Prof.  James  T.  Bixby. 

Inductive  Philosophy  of  Religion      1 2 
6      Prof.  Frederick  W.  Putnam. 

American  Archeology      ...       6 


1883-84 

1 2      Rev.  J.  G.  Wood. 

Structure  of  Animal  Life  ...      12 
12      Prof.  E.  S.  Morse. 

Japan 12 


8o  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

iz      Prof.  Chas.  R.  Cross. 

Sound   .     .     .     .  .  .     .     .     .     12 

6       Mr.  W.  M.  Davis. 

Winds,  Cyclones,  and  Tornadoes       6 
1 2      Dr.  T.  Sterry  Hunt. 

Mineral  Physiology     .     .     .     .      12 

6      Mr.  Geo.  Kennan. 

Asiatic  Russia 6 

10      Rev.  Edward  C.  Mitchell. 

Biblical  Science  and  Modern  Dis- 
covery     10 

6      Dr.  Morris  Longstreth. 

The  Germ  Theory  of  Disease     .       6 


1884-85 

6      Prof.  R.  S.  Ball,  LL.D.,  F.R.S. 

Chapters  on  Modern  Astronomy       6 
6      Dr.  Thomas  D  wight. 

The    Mechanics    of    Bone   and 

Muscle 6 

6       Prof.  Edmund  W.  Gosse. 

The  Transition  from  Shakespeare 

to  Pope 6 

6      Dr.  David  G.  Brinton. 

North  American  Indians  ...       6 
6      Frederick  A.  Ober. 

Mexico  and  its  People      ...       6 


The  Lowell  Institute  81 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Rev.  Leighton  Parks. 

Christianity  and  the  Early  Aryan 

Religions 6 

6       Edward  Stanwood,  Esq. 

Early  Party  Contests  ....        6 
12      Gen.  F.  A.  Walker. 

The  United  States  as  Seen  in  the 

Census 12 

6      John  C.  Ropes,  Esq. 

The  First  Napoleon    ....       6 


1885-86 

7  Rev.  H.  R.  Haweis. 

Music  and  Morals       ....        7 

8  Prof.  James  R.  Soley,  U.S.N. 

The  American  Navy  ....        8 
6      Thomas  D.  Lockwood. 

The  Electric  Telegraph  and  Tele- 
phone      6 

6       A.  G.  Sedgwick,  Esq. 

Law 6 

1 2      Prof.  Francis  J.  Child. 

Early  English  Poetry  .      .      .      .      12 
8       Rev.  James  De  Normandie. 

The  Sunday  Question       ...        8 
12       Prof.  Chas.  A.  Young. 

Popular  Astronomy     .      .      .      .      12 


82  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2  (r)   Officers  of  Both  Armies. 

The  Late  Civil  War.  (Lecturers 
selected  by  the  Military  Hist- 
orical Society  of  Massachusetts)  1 2 

(/?)     Gen.  Charles  Devens. 

Introductory. 
(J)     Col.  J.  Hotchkiss. 

Pope's  Campaign, 
(c)     Gen.  G.  H.  Gordon. 

Antietam. 
(</)     Col.  Theodore  A.  Dodge. 

Chancellorsville. 
0)     Col.  W.  Allan. 

Stonewall  Jackson. 
(/)    Gen.  Francis  A.  Walker. 

Gettysburg. 
(£)     Col.  T.  L.  Livermore. 

The  Northern  Volunteers. 
(£)     Major  H.  Kyd  Douglass. 

The  Southern  Volunteers. 
(/')     Gen.  Wm.  F.  Smith. 

Chattanooga. 
(_/')     John  C.  Ropes,  Esq. 

The  Campaign  of  1 864. 

(/*)     Col.  Henry  Stone. 

Franklin  and  Nashville. 


The  Lowell  Institute  83 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

(/)     Col.  Frederick  C.  Newhall. 

The  Last  Campaign    ....     24 


1886-87 

8         Alfred  Russell  Wallace,  LL.D. 

Darwinism  and  some  of  its  Ap- 
plications       8 

1 2          Prof.  Rodolfo  Lanciani. 

Recent  Archaeological  Discoveries 

in  Rome 12 

6         Sir  J.  William  Dawson,  LL.D.,  F.R.S. 
The   Development  of  Plants  in 

Geological  Times    ....       6 
6         Wm.  F.  Apthorp,  Esq. 

Music 6 

4         Dr.  Leonard  Waldo. 

Horology 4 

8         Geo.  M.  Towle,  Esq. 

Foreign  Governments       ...        8 
6         Mr.  Henry  A.  Clapp. 

Shakespearean  Dramas      ...        6 
6  (r)  James  Russell  Lowell. 

Early  English  Dramatists ...      12 

1887-88 

6  (r)  Mr.  Henry  A.  Clapp. 

Dramas  of  Shakespeare     ...      12 


84  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

1 2       Prof.  J.  P.  Cooke. 

Necessary  Limitation  of  Scientific 

Thought 12 

8       Rev.  G.  Frederick  Wright. 

The  Ice  Age  in  North  America  .  8 
6  James  R.  Gilmore. 

The  Early  Southwest ....  6 
8  John  S.  Billings,  M.D.,  U.S.A. 

The  History  of  Medicine  .  .  8 
8  Prof.  James  Russell  Soley,  U.S.N. 

European   Neutrality   during  the 

Civil  War 8 

6      Prof.  D.  G.  Lyon. 

Ancient  Assyrian  Life  ...  6 
6  Prof.  George  L.  Goodale. 

Forests  and  Forest  Products   .     .       6 

1888-89 

8      Prof.  Charles  H.  Moore. 

Gothic  Architecture  ....  8 
6  Ivan  Panin. 

Russian  Literature  ....  6 
4  Eadweard  Muybridge. 

Animal  Locomotion  ....  4 
8  Prof.  N.  S.  Shaler. 

Geographical  Conditions  and  Life  8 
6  Wm.  Bradford,  Esq. 

Wonders  of  the  Polar  World      .       6 


The  Lowell  Institute  85 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Col.  Theodore  A.  Dodge. 

Great  Captains 6 

8  Richard  Salter  Storrs,  D.D. 

Bernard  of  Clairvaux  ....  8 
6  George  Kennan. 

Eastern  Siberia 6 

8  Prof.  Edward  S.  Morse. 

Peoples  and  Institutions  Abroad  .        8 

1889-90 

8      Prof.  Edward  D.  Cope. 

The  Evolution  of  the  Vertebrata  8 
2  Carl  Lumholtz,  M.A. 

Amopg  Australian  Natives  .  .  2 
8  C.  C.  Coffin. 

The  Unwritten  and  Secret  His- 
tory of  the  Late  Confederacy  .        8 
6      Prof.  Thomas  M.  Drown. 

Water  Supply  in  its  Relation  to 

Public  Health 6 

8       Prof.  William  G.  Farlow. 

Lower  Forms  of  Plant  Life    .     .        8 
12       John  Fiske,  Litt.D.,  LL.D. 

The  Discovery  and  Colonization 

of  America 12 

8      Louis  Dyer,  Esq. 

The  Gods  in  Greece  as  Known 
by  Recent  Excavations      .     .       8 


The  Lowell  Institute 


No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

7         Augustus  Le  Plongeon,  M.D. 

Ancient  American  Civilization     .        7 
6          Prof.  William  Rotch  Ware. 

Equestrian  Monuments    ...       6 


1890-91 

6  Hon.  John  A.  Kasson,  LL.D. 

Diplomacy  and  Diplomatists .     .       6 

7  Louis  Fagan. 

Treasures  of  the  British  Museum       7 

8  Prof.  Barrett  Wendell. 

English  Composition  ....        8 
8(r)  Mr.  Henry  A.  Clapp. 

Dramas    and    Sonnets  of  Shake- 
speare      1 6 

8         Prof.  Charles  E.  Munroe. 

Explosive  Substances  ....        8 
6         George  M.  Towle. 

The  Era  of  Elizabeth       ...       6 
8         Francis  G.  Peabody,  D.D. 

The  Ethics  of  the  Social  Question       8 
10         Prof.   James    Geikie,  D.C.L.,  LL.D., 

F.R.S. 
Europe  During  and  After  the  Ice 

Age 10 

3         A.  Lawrence  Rotch,  S.B. 

Mountain  Meteorology    ...        3 


The  Lowell  Institute  87 

No.  of  Lectures  ,  QQI    no  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  188J1-94  Giyen 

6          Oliver  W.  Huntington,  Ph.D. 

Meteorites 6 

6         Charles  W.  Eliot. 

Recent  Educational  Changes  and 

Tendencies 6 

8         Charles  Valentine  Riley,  Ph.D. 

Entomology 8 

8         Rev.  Lyman  Abbott,  D.D. 

The  Evolution  of  Christianity     .        8 
8         William  Everett,  Ph.D.,  Litt.D. 

Saints  and  Saintly  Service      .      .        8 
8         Prof.  A.  V.  G.  Allen,  D.D. 

Christian  Institutions  ;  their  Ori- 
gin, Development  and  Results       8 
10          Prof.  G.  Frederick  Wright. 

The  Origin  and  Antiquity  of  the 

Human  Race 10 

6         George  L.  Fox,  M.A. 

The  Public  Schools  of  England   .        6 
8         John  Murray,  Ph.D. 

Oceanography 8 


1892-93 

4  (r)   Mr.  Henry  A.  Clapp. 

Dramas  of  Shakespeare 
6         Prof.  T.  C.  Mendenhall. 

Earth  Measuring   . 


88  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12         Mr.  C.  S.  Peirce. 

The  History  of  Science    ...      I  z 
8       Prof.  Josiah  P.  Cooke,  LL.D. 

Photograph  Sketches  of  Egypt     .        8 
6       Louis  C.  Elson. 

Music,  its  Origin  and  Develop- 
ment       6 

6      George  H.  Martin,  A.M. 

Evolution    of  the    Massachusetts 
School  System  ......       6 

12      Prof.  George  L.  Goodale. 

Ceylon,  Java,  Australia,  and  New 
Zealand I  z 

8  Prof.  Charles  R.  Cross. 

The  Acoustic  Phenomena  Under- 
lying Music 8 

9  A.  Lawrence  Lowell,  Esq. 

The    Governments    of    Central 

Europe 9 

6       Prof.  Gaetano  Lanza. 

Engineering  Practice  and  Educa- 
tion   6 

12      Prof.      Henry      Drummond,      LL.D., 

F.R.S.E.,  F.G.S. 

The  Evolution  of  Man     .      .      .      1 8 
The  last  six  repeated. 


The  Lowell  Institute 


No.  of  Lectures  1000  a  A  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

4  (r)   Protap  Chunder  Mozoomdar. 

The  Religious  and  Social  Life  of 

India 8 

1 2         Prof.  Charles  R.  Cross. 

Modern  Uses  of  Electricity  .      .      12 
6         George  L.  Fox,  M.A. 

English  Public  Schools     ...       6 
6          Prof.  Gaetano  Lanza. 

The  Strength  of  Materials      .      .        6 
6         Prof.  William  T.  Sedgwick. 

Bacteriology 6 

8         S.  R.  Koehler. 

Engraving 8 

6         Sir  J.  William  Dawson,  LL.D.,F.R.S. 
The  Meeting  Place  of  Geology 

and  History 6 

3         Carl  Lumholtz,  M.A. 

The  Characteristics  of  the  Cave 

Dwellers  of  the  Sierra  Madre  .        3 
8         Prof.  Edward  B.  Poulton,  M.A.,  F.R.S. 

The  Colors  of  Animals     ...        8 
8          Frederick  S.  Dellenbaugh. 

The    Native    Races    of    North 

America 8 

1 2         Prof.  H.  Von  Hoist. 

The   French   Revolution  Tested 
by  Mirabeau's  Career .      .      .      12 


90  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6         Percival  Lowell,  Esq. 

Japanese  Occultism     ....        6 
8         William  Jewett  Tucker,  D.D. 

The  Influence  of  Religion  To-day       8 

1894-95 

4(r)  Mr.  Henry  A.  Clapp. 

Historical  Dramas  of  Shakespeare       8 
6         Prof.  T.  W.  Rhys  Davids,  Ph.D.,  LL.D. 

Buddhism 6 

8          Major  Wm.  R.  Livermore,  U.S.A. 

Light-house  Systems   ....        8 
8         Rev.  F.  H.  James. 

China  and  the  Chinese     ...        8 
8         Rev.  Frederick  H.  Wines. 

Crime  and  Criminals  ....        8 
12         John  Fiske. 

Early  Settlement  of  Virginia  .      .      12 
6          C.  Howard  Walker,  F.A.I.A. 

Decoration  Applied  to  Architect- 
ure and  the  Industrial  Arts      .        6 
4         Percival  Lowell,  Esq. 

The  Planet  Mars 4 

6         Alexandre  S.  Chessin,  Ph.D. 

Russia  and  Russians    ....        6 
8         Philip  Stafford  Moxom,  D.D. 

The  Church  in  the  First  Three 
Centuries  .     .        8 


The  Lowell  Institute  91 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

8       George  F.  Kunz. 

Precious  Stones 8 

8       Rev.  E.  Winchester  Donald,  D.D. 

The  Expansion  of  Religion  .     .        8 

1895-96 
6      Sir  J.  Wm.  Dawson,  LL.D.,  F.R.S. 

The  Beginnings  of  Life     ...        6 
8      Prof.  Arlo  Bates. 

The  Study  of  Literature  ...        8 
8       Prof.  Henry  S.  Nash,  D.D. 

The  Establishment  of  Christianity 
in  Europe,  in  Relation  to  the 
Social  Question       ....        8 
4      Francis  C.  Lowell,  Esq. 

Joan  of  Arc 4 

12       Lectures  on  Engineering 12 

(4)  Desmond  Fitzgerald,  Esq.,  C.E. 

Water  Supply. 
(2)  Prof.  D wight  Porter. 

Sewerage. 
(4)  Prof.  C.  Frank  Allen. 

Roadways,  Pavements,  and  Rail- 
roads. 
(2)  Prof.  George  F.  Swain. 

Bridges. 
10       Prof.  C.  Lloyd  Morgan. 

Habit  and  Instinct  .     .      10 


92  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6      Prof.  John  F.  Weir,  N.A.,  M.A. 

Some  Principal  Centres  and  Mas- 
ters in  Art 6 

8       Prince  Serge  Wolkonsky. 

Russian  History  and  Russian  Lit- 
erature     8 

6      George  W.  Cable. 

The  Story-teller  and  His  Art      .       6 
8       Rev.  George  Hodges,  D.D. 

Present  Christian  Problems    .     .        8 
8      Henry  P.  Walcott,  M.D. 

State  Medicine 8 

8      Prof.  A.  E.  Verrill. 

Mollusca,    Shell-fish    and    their 
Allies 8 

1896-97 
10      Louis  C.  Elson. 

The    Symphony  and    the    Sym- 
phony Orchestra    .     .     .     .      10 
8       Prof.  William  James,  M.D. 

Exceptional  Mental  States     .     .       8 
6      Daniel  G.  Brinton,  M.D.,  LL.D. 

The  Religions  of  Primitive  Peo- 
ples   6 

6      Prof.  Wm.  Z.  Ripley,  Ph.D. 

Anthropological   History   of  the 
European  Races      ....       6 


The  Lowell  Institute  93 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

6         Rev.     G.     Frederick    Wright,     D.D., 

LL.D. 
Scientific    Aspects    of    Christian 

Evidences 6 

6(r)  Henry  A.  Clapp,  A.M. 

Comedies  of  Shakespeare  ...      12 
8         Prof.  Charles  R.  Cross. 

The  X  Rays  of  Rontgen  ...        8 
10         Prof.  Arthur  Gordon  Webster. 

Electricity  and  Magnetism,  Light 

and  the  Ether 10 

6         Prof.  Felix  Adler. 

The  Ethics  of  Marriage    ...        6 
10         Capt.  A.  T.  Mahan,  U.S.N. 

Naval  Warfare  10 


1897-98 

10         Prof.  G.  H.  Darwin,  F.R.S. 

Tides 10 

6         Prof.  Michael  Foster,  Sec.  R.S. 

Some  Features  of  Brain  Work     .        6 
2          Prince  Kropotkin. 

(</)    Savages  and  Barbarians. 

(£)    The  Mediaeval  City      .     .        2 
6  (r)  Edward  E.  Hale. 

The  Local  History  and  Antiqui- 
ties of  Boston    ,  1 2 


94  The  Lowell  Institute 

No.  of  Lectures  No.  of  Lectures 

Announced  Given 

12          Prof.  George  Lincoln  Goodale,  LL.D. 

Food  Plants  and  Their  Products      1 2 
6         Rev.  T.  K.  Cheyne,  M.A.,  D.D. 

Jewish    Religious    Life   after   the 

Exile 6 

10          Rev.  Jean  Charlemagne  Bracq,  A.B. 

Contemporary   French  Literature      10 
3  (r)  Prof.  Kakichi  Mitsukuri,  Ph.D. 

The  Social  Life  of  Japan  ...       6 
12         John  Fiske,  Litt.D.,  LL.D. 

The  Dutch  and  Quaker  Colonies      1 2 

6  Prof.  William  E.  Story,  Ph.D. 

The  Beginnings  of  Mathematics       6 

7  Hon.  William  Everett,  LL.D. 

Some  Poets  of  Our  Grandfathers' 

Days 7 

6         Alexander  McKenzie,  D.D. 

The  Divine  Force  in  the  Life  of 
the  World   .  6 


Index 


PAGE 

Abbott,  Lyman 87 

Adams,  C.  F 71 

Adams,  Henry 73 

Adler,  Felix 93 

Agassiz,  Alexander 42 

Agassiz,  Louis 31, 36,  39,  52,  53,  56,  60,  62,  63,  66 

Alden,  Henry  W.  61 

Alger,  William  R 57,  59 

Allan,  W. 82 

Allen,  A.  V.  G 87 

Allen,  C.  Frank 91 

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences 29 

Apthorp,  William  F 77,  83 

Arnold,  Howard  Payson 64 

Athenaeum,  Boston 12 

Atkinson,  William  P 63,  69 

Atwood,  E.  W 64 

Bacon,  Francis 67 

Ball,  R.  S 80 

Barnard,  Henry 61 

Bascom,  John 66,  70 

Bates,  Arlo 91 

Bell,  Alexander  Melville 65,  68, 69 

Bellows,  Henry  W 58 

Bickmore,  Albert  S 68 

Billings,  John  S 84 

Bixby,  James  T 72, 79 

Blagden,  George  W 54 

Bolles,  E.  C 77 

Bowen,  Francis 52,  53,  54,  58,  62 

95 


96 


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PAGE 

Boyesen,  Hjalmar  H 78 

Bracq,  Jean  Charlemagne 94 

Bradford,  Gamaliel 73,  74,  78 

Bradford,  William 84 

Brigham,  William 65 

Brigham,  William  T 64,  69 

Brinton,  David  G 80,  92 

Brown,  S.  G 59 

Brown-Sequard,  G.  E 70,  71 

Bryce,  James 78 

Burgess,  E 62,  63 

Burnap,  George  W 57 

Cable,  George  W. 92 

Carleton,  William  T 28 

Carpenter,  William  B 79 

Chadbourne,  Paul  A 63,68,72 

Channing,  William  H 66 

Chessin,  Alexandre  S 90 

Cheyne,  T.  K 94 

Child,  Francis  J 74,  75,  81 

Clapp,  Henry  A 83,  86,  87,  90,  93 

Clark,  Henry  James 61 

Clarke,  James  Freeman 76, 78 

Coffin,  Charles  Carleton 77,  85 

Cooke,  Dr.  Josiah  Parsons,  31, 33, 55, 57, 60, 62,  65,  69, 75,  84,  88 

Cope,  Edward  D 85 

Copeland,  Robert  Morris 64 

Cotting,  Dr.  Benjamin  E 19 

Cross,  Charles  R 80,  88,  89,  93 

Curators,  and  duties  of 18,  19,  20 

Curtis,  George  T S3 

Curtis,  George  William 57 

Cyr,  N 73 

Dana,  R.  H 63 

Darwin,  G.  H 93 

Davids,  T.  W.  Rhys 9° 


Index  97 


PAGE 

Davidson,  Thomas 75,  77 

Davis,  E.  H 56 

Davis,  W.  M 79,  80 

Dawkins,  W.  Boyd 76 

Dawson,  J.  William 83,  89,  91 

Dellenbaugh,  Frederick  S 89 

De  Normandie,  James 81 

Derby,  George 68 

Devens,  Charles 82 

Dewey,  Orville 54,  56 

Di  Cesnola,  L.  P 75 

Diman,  J.  L 76 

Dodge,  Theodore  A 82,  85 

Donald,  E.  Winchester 91 

Douglass,  H.  Kyd 82 

Drew,  Edward  B 78 

Drown,  Thomas  M 85 

Drummond,  Henry v,  32,  37,  88 

Duncan,  T.  A 67 

Dwight,  Thomas 80 

Dyer,  Louis 85 

Eliot,  Charles  W. 87 

Eliot,  Samuel 62,  66,  72 

Elliott,  Charles  Wyllis 75 

Ellis,  George  E 60,  65,  68,  75 

Elson,  Louis  C 88,  92 

Emerson,  George  B 66 

Endowment.    See  Fund. 

Eustis,  H.  L 55 

Everett,  Edward 21, 47,  49 

Everett,  William 61,  74,  87,  94 

Fagan,  Louis 86 

Farlow,  William  G 76,  85 

Felton,  C.  C 54,  S6,  59 

Fewkes,  J.  W.  79 

Field,  David  Dudley 68 

H 


98 


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PAGE 

Fields,  James  T 70 

Fisher,  George  P 68,  72 

Fiske,  John 85,  90,  94 

Fitzgerald,  Desmond 91 

Fletcher,  J.  C 61,  63 

Foster,  Michael 93 

Fox,  George  L 87,  89 

Freeman,  Edward  A 78 

Frothingham,  Richard 62 

Fund  of  the  Lowell  Institute 12, 15  30, 

Gage,  W.  L 64, 71 

Gajani,  Guglielmo 57,  60 

Geikie,  Archibald 75 

Geikie,  James 86 

Giles,  Henry 57,  59,  60,  61 

Oilman,  Arthur 51 

Gilman,  D.  C 67 

Gilmore,  James  R 84 

Glidden,  George  R 50 

Godkin,  E.  L 67 

Goodale,  George  Lincoln 70,  79,  84,  88,  94 

Goodrich,  Charles  B 54 

Gordon,  G.  H 82 

Gosse,  Edmund  W. 80 

Gould,  A.  A 55 

Gould,  B.  A 54 

Gray,  Asa 51 

Greene,  George  W 61,  65 

Guild,  Edward  C 74 

Guyot,  Arnold 54,  55 

Hale,  Edward  Everett 32, 66,  93 

Halleck,  H.  W 51 

Hart,  Charles  F 69 

Harvey,  Wm.  H 53 

Haven,  Samuel  T 65 

Haweis,  H.  R 81 


Index  99 


Hawkins,  B.  W 70 

Hayes,  Isaac  1 70 

Haynes,  Henry  W 76 

Hedge,  Frederic  H 56 

Hill,  Thomas 59,  68 

Hillard,  George  S 52 

Hodges,  George 92 

Hollingsworth,  William 27 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell v,  25,  32,  55,  66 

Holmes,  O.  W.,  Jr 77 

Hoist,  Herman  Eduard  von 89 

Holtzendorff,  Franz  von 73 

Hopkins,  Mark 51,  60,  64,  69 

Horsford,  Eben  N 52 

Hotchkiss,  J 82 

Hough,  F.  B 72 

Hovey,  William  A 71 

Howells,  William  D 68 

Hunt,  T.  Sterry 63,  80 

Huntington,  F.  D 58 

Huntington,  Oliver  W 87 

Huntington  Hall 26 

Hyde,  Alexander 66,  67 

Jackson,  Charles 55 

James,  F.  H 90 

James,  William  74,  92 

Johnston,  James  F.  W. 53 

Kasson,  John  A 86 

Kennan,  George 80,  85 

Kirk,  J.  Foster 62 

Kneeland,  Samuel 70,  71,  79 

Koehler.  S.  R 89 

Koeppen,  Adolphus  L 52 

Kropotkin,  P 93 

Kunz,  George  F 91 


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PAGE 

Lanciani,  Rodolfo 83 

Langley,  Samuel  P 79 

Lantern,  the  vertical 35 

Lanza,  Gaetano 88,  89 

Lasell,  Edward 53 

Lathrop,  G.  P 77 

Lawrence,  Abbott 41 

Lawrence,  Edward  A 66,  69 

Lawrence  Scientific  School 39, 41 

Lectures,  total  number  of 29 

Lectures,  early  popularity  of  in  Boston 3 

Lectures,  publication  of 38 

Lecturers,  selection  of 30 

Lemercier,  F.  G 66 

Le  Plangeon,  Augustus 86 

Lesdakelyi,  E 61 

Lesley,  J.  P 62 

Lippitt,  Francis  J 62 

Livermore,  A.  A 65 

Livermore,  T.  L 82 

Livermore,  William  R 90 

Lockwood,  Thomas  D 81 

Lodge,  Henry  Cabot 76 

Longstreth,  Morris 80 

Loom,  power 15 

Lord,  John 58 

Levering,  Joseph 31, 49,  50, 51,  55,  56,  59,  63,  75 

Lowell,  A.  Lawrence 88 

Lowell,  Augustus 17 

Lowell,  Rev.  Charles 15 

Lowell,  Francis  Cabot  14 

Lowell,  Francis  C 91 

Lowell,  James  Russell 15,  32,  56,  83 

Lowell,  Judge  John 13 

Lowell,  Judge  John,  sons  of 14 

Lowell,  John  Amory vi,  14, 15, 16,  18,  40 

Lowell,  John,  Jr vi,  n,  12,  13, 15, 18,  21, 46 

Lowell,  John,  Jr.,  ancestry  of 13 


Index  101 


PAGE 

Lowell,  John,  Jr.,  will  of 12,  15 

Lowell,  Percival 90 

Lowell  Drawing  School 26,  28 

Lowell  Free  Courses  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 

Technology 43 

Lowell  Free  Courses  in  the  Wells  Memorial  Institute 44 

Lowell  Institute,  audiences  of 37 

Lowell  Institute,  influence  of v,  39,  42 

Lowell  Institute,  opening  of 21 

Lowell  Institute,  origin  of 12 

Lowell  Free  Lectures  of  the  Boston  Society  of  Natural 

History 44 

Lowell  Free  School  of  Practical  Design 44 

Lumholtz,  Carl  85,  89 

Lyceum,  the  New  England 5 

Lyell,  Charles 50,  51,  54 

Lyon,  D.  G 84 

Mahan,  A.  T 93 

Marlboro  Chapel  25,  28 

Marsh,  George  P 60 

Martin,  George  H 88 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society 29 

Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology 26,  43, 44 

Maury,  M.  F 57 

McKenzie,  Alexander 94 

Mendenhall,  T.  C 79,  87 

Mercantile  Library  Association 6 

Merrill,  Selah 74 

Milburn,  W.  H 57.  77 

Minot,  Charles  S 74 

Mitchell,  Edward  C 80 

Mitchell,  O.  M 52 

Mitsukuri,  Kakichi 94 

Monti,  Luigi 72,  77 

Moore,  Charles  H 84 

Morgan,  C.  Lloyd 91 

Morse,  Edward  S 68,  78,  79,  85 


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PAGE 

Moxom,  Philip  Stafford 90 

Mozoomdar,  Protap  Chunder 89 

Munroe,  Charles  E 86 

Murray,  John 87 

Muybridge,  Eadweard 84 

Nash,  Henry  S 91 

Newcomb,  Simon 78 

New  England,  early  intellectual  life  of 2 

Newhall,  Frederick  C 82 

Nichols,  William  Ripley 73 

Niles,  William  H 67,  71,  76 

Northrup,  B.  G 70 

Norton,  Charles  Eliot 61,  72 

Nuttall,  Thomas 49 

Ober,  Frederick  A 80 

Odeon,  The 9 

Ogden,  William  B. 67 

Old  Corner  Book  Store 22,  23 

Olmstead,  F.  L 67 

Palfrey,  John  G 49,  50,  56 

Panin,  Ivan 84 

Parker,  Joel  55.  66 

Parks,  Leighton 81 

Peabody,  A.  P 61,  64,  71 

Peabody,  Francis  G 86 

Peirce,  Benjamin  60,  67,  73,  75 

Peirce,  Charles  S 63,  88 

Perkins,  C.  C 67,  69,  70,  74 

Phillips,  Wendell 5 

Pickering,  E.  C 70 

Playfair,  Lyon 76 

Poets,  English vi 

Porter,  Dwight 91 

Potter,  Alonzo 51,  52,  53,  54 

Poulton,  Edward  B 89 


Index  103 


PAGE 

Power  loom  15 

Price,  Bonamy 71 

Proctor,  Richard  A 70,  71 

Pumpelly,  Raphael 67 

Putnam,  Frederick  W 79 

Ray,  Isaac 58 

Reid,  David  B 57 

Rhys  Davids,  T.  W   90 

Riley,  Charles  Valentine 87 

Ripley,  William  Z 92 

Robbins,  Chandler 66 

Rogers,  Henry  D 51,  52,  53,  56 

Rogers,  William  B 58,  59,  60 

Ropes,  John  C 81,82 

Rotch,  A.  Lawrence 86 

Runkle,  John  D 73 

Samuels,  Edward  A 63 

Sanborn,  F.  B 73 

Scharb,  E.  Vitalis  57 

Schlagintweit,  Robert  von 64 

Scholarship,  Professor  Tyndall's 42 

Scudder,  Horace  E 78 

Sedgwick,  A.  G 81 

Sedgwick,  William  T 20,  89 

Semper,  Carl  74 

Shaler,  N.  S 69,  84 

Silliman,  Benjamin 21,  31,  49,  50 

Slavery,  first  prohibition  of 14 

Smith,  Walter 69 

Smith,  William  F 82 

Soley,  James  R 81,  84 

Solger,  Reinhold 58,  59 

Sparks,  Jared 50 

Spaulding,  H.  G 71,  73 

Squier,  E.  George 63 

Stanwood,  Edward 8r 


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PAGE 

Steffen,  William  61 

Stereopticon,  first  use  of 35 

Stone,  Henry  . . 82 

Stone,  Thomas  T 58 

Storrs,  Richard  Salter 77,  85 

Story,  William  E 94 

Swain,  George  F 91 

Taylor,  Bayard 74 

Tenney,  Sanborn 69,  72 

Theatres,  early 3,  8 

Theatres,  prejudice  against 7,  9 

Thompson,  D'Arcy  W 64 

Tickets,  distribution  of 21,  23 

Towle,  George  Makepeace 77,  83,  86 

Tremont  Temple 9 

Trowbridge,  John 71,  76 

Trustee,  powers  and  duties  of  the  sole 12,  16,  17 

Tucker,  William  Jewett 90 

Tyler,  M.  Coit 77 

Tyndall,  John 42,  69 

Upham,  Charles  W 65 

Verrill,  A.  E 92 

Walcott,  Henry  P. 92 

Waldo,  Leonard 83 

Walker,  C.  Howard 90 

Walker,  Francis  A 73,  75,  81,  82 

Walker,  James 49,  50,  59 

Wallace,  Alfred  Russell 83 

Ware,  William  R. 74,  86 

Washburn,  Emory 64,  65,  73 

Waterston,  Robert  C 60,  68 

Webster,  Arthur  Gordon 93 

Weir,  John  F 92 

Wells,  David  A 73 


Index  105 


PAGE 

Wells  Memorial  Workingmen's  Institute 44 

Wendell,  Barrett 86 

Whipple,  Edwin  P. 59 

Whitney,  William  D 62 

Wilder,  Burt  G 63,  67 

Will  of  John  Lowell,  Jr 12, 15 

Wilson,  Daniel 6l 

Wines,  Frederick  H go 

Winthrop,  Robert  C 65 

Wolkonsky,  Serge 92 

Wood,  J.  G 79 

Wood,  John  T. 71 

Woolsey,  T.  D 68 

Wright,  Carroll  D 73,  76 

Wright,  G.  Frederick 84,  87,  93 

Wyman,  Jeffries  18,  49,  53 

Young,  C.  A 72,  8l 

Zachos,  J.  C 62 


A  List  of  Publications  correspond- 
ing to,  and  Largely  the  Result  of, 
Courses  of  Lectures  delivered  be- 
fore the  Lowell  Institute.* 


Abbott,  Lyman. 

Christianity  and  Social  Problems. 
Lowell  Institute  Lectures. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1897. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1891-92.) 

Adams,  Charles  Francis,  Jr. 

Railroads  :  their  Origin  and  Problems. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1878. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1874-75.) 

Agassiz,  Louis. 

Comparative  Embryology. 
Flanders  &  Co.,  Boston,  1849. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1848-49.) 

Geological  Sketches.     First  Series. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1866. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1853-54.) 

Methods  of  Study  in  Natural  History. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1863. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1861-62.) 

*  This  list,  which  includes  books  only,  has  been  compiled  with 
care  but  is  believed  to  be  still  incomplete.  Information  bearing  upon 
it  will  be  welcomed  by  the  author,  who  may  be  addressed  in  care  of 
the  publishers. 

106 


The  Lowell  Institute  107 

Geological  Sketches.     Second  Series. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1875. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1864-65.) 

Alger,  William  Rounseville. 

A  Critical  Study  of  the  Doctrine  of  a  Future 

Life. 
George  W.  Childs,  Philadelphia,  1 860. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1856-57.) 

Allen,  Alexander  Viets  Grisnold. 

Christian  Institutions. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New  York,  1897. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1891-92.) 

Arnold,  Howard  Payson. 

The    Great    Exposition :     with    Continental 

Sketches. 
Kurd  &  Houghton,  New  York,  1868. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1867-68.) 

Bascom,  John. 

Science,  Philosophy,  and  Religion  :   Lectures 
delivered    before   the   Lowell    Institute, 
Boston. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1871. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1869-70.) 

Philosophy  of  English  Literature :    Lectures 

before  the  Lowell  Institute,  Boston. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1874. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1873-74.) 


io8  The  Lowell  Institute 

Bates,  Arlo. 

Talks  on  the  Study  of  Literature. 

Lowell  Institute  Lectures. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1897. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

Bowen,  Francis. 

Lowell  Lectures  on  the  Application  of  Meta- 
physical   and    Ethical    Science    to    the 
Evidences  of  Religion. 
Little  &  Brown,  Boston,  1849. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1848-49.) 

Brigham,  William  Tufts. 

The  Volcanic  Phenomena  of  the   Hawaiian 

Islands. 
Riverside  Press,  Cambridge,  1868. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1867-68.) 

Brinton,  Daniel  Garrison. 

Religion    of    Primitive    Peoples :    American 
Lectures  on  the  History  of  Religions. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1897. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1896-97.) 

Burgess,  Ebenezer. 

What    is    Truth  ?     An    Inquiry   concerning 
the  Antiquity  and  Unity  of  the  Human 
Race.     Lectures  before  the  Lowell  In- 
stitute. 
Israel  P.  Warren,  Boston,  1871. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1866-67.) 


The  Lowell  Institute  109 

Chadbourne,  Paul  Ansel. 

Lectures  on  Natural  Theology  before  the 
Lowell  Institute. 

G.  P.  Putnam  &  Sons,  New  York,  1867. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1865-66.) 

Lowell  Lectures :  Instinct ;  its  Office  in  the 
Animal  Kingdom,  and  its  Relation  to 
the  Higher  Power  in  Man. 

G.  P.  Putnam  &  Sons,  New  York,  1872. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1870-71.) 

Clark,  Henry  James. 

Mind  in  Nature :  Origin  of  Life  and  Mode 
of   Development    of   Animals.      With 
illustrations. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1865. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1863-64.) 

Clarke,  James  Freeman. 

Events  and  Epochs  in  Religious  History. 
Being  the  Substance  of  Twelve  Lect- 
ures delivered  in  the  Lowell  Institute, 
Boston. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1881. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1879-80.) 

Ten  Great  Religions.  Part  II.  A  Com- 
parison of  all  Religions.  Lowell  Insti- 
tute Lectures. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1883. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1881-82.) 


no  The  Lowell  Institute 

Cooke,  Josiah  Parsons. 

Religion  and  Chemistry  ;   or,  Proofs  of  God's 
Plan    in   the  Atmosphere   and   its   Ele- 
ments. 
Charles  Scribner,  New  York,  1864. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1 860-61.) 

The  New  Chemistry. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1874. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1872-73.) 

The  Credentials  of  Science  the  Warrant  of 

Faith. 
R.  Carter  &  Bros.,  New  York,  1888. 

( Lowell  Institute,  1887-88.) 

Curtis,  George  Ticknor. 

History  of  the  Origin,  Foundation,  and  Adop- 
tion of  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,   with    Notices    of    its    Principal 
Framers. 
Harper  &  Bros.,  New  York,  1854. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1849-50.) 

Davids,  Thomas  William  Rhys. 

Buddhism  :  Its  History  and  Literature. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1896. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1894-95.) 

Davis,  William  Morris. 

Cyclones  and  Tornadoes. 

Lee  &  Shepard,   Boston;    Charles  T.   Dilling- 
ham,  New  York,  1884. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1883-84.) 


The  Lowell  Institute  in 

Dawson,  Sir  John  William. 

The  Meeting  Place  of  Geology  and  History. 
Lectures  for  the  Lowell  Institute,  Boston, 
Massachusetts. 

Fleming  H.  Revell  Co.,  London  and  New  York, 
1894.  (Lowell  Institute,  1893—94.) 

The   Relics   of   Primeval   Man.     The   Sub- 
stance  of    a   Course    of    Lectures    on 
Pre-Cambrian  Fossils,  delivered  in  the 
Lowell  Institute,  Boston. 
Hodder  &  Stoughton,  London,  1897. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

Dewey,  Orville. 

The  Problem  of  Human  Destiny,  or  the  End 
of  Providence  in  the  World  and  Man. 
Lowell  Lectures. 
J.  Miller,  New  York,  1864. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1851-52.) 

Diman,  J.  Louis. 

The  Theistic  Argument  as  affected  by  Recent 

Theories. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1881. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1879-80.) 

Dodge,  Theodore  Ayrault. 

Great  Captains.  Six  Lowell  Institute  Lect- 
ures Showing  the  Influence  on  the  Art 
of  War  of  the  Campaigns  of  Alexander, 
Hannibal,  Caesar,  Gustavus  Adolphus, 
Frederick,  and  Napoleon. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1889. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1888-89.) 


112  The  Lowell  Institute 

Donald,  E.  Winchester. 

The  Expansion  of  Religion.     Lowell  Insti- 
tute Lectures. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1895. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1894-95.) 

Drummond,  Henry. 

Lowell  Lectures  on  the  Ascent  of  Man. 

Pott  &  Co.,  New  York,  1895. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1892-93.) 

Dyer,  Louis. 

Studies  of  the  Gods  in  Greece.     At  certain 
Sanetuaries   recently   excavated.     Eight 
Lectures  given  at  the  Lowell  Institute. 
The  Macmillan  Company,  London,  1891. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1889-90.) 

Everett,  Edward. 

A  Memoir  of  Mr.  John  Lowell,  Jr.,  deliv- 
ered as  the  Introduction  to  the  Lectures 
on  his  Foundation,  in  the  Odeon,  Boston, 
Mass.,  3ist  December,  1839 ;  repeated 
in  the  Marlborough  Chapel,  2d  January, 
1840. 

Published  by  the  Lowell  Institute. 
Little  &  Brown,  Boston,  1840  and  1879. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1840-41.) 

Everett,  William. 
On  the  Cam. 

Sever  &  Francis,  Cambridge,  1 866. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1863-64.) 


The  Lowell  Institute  113 

Felton,  Cornelius  Conway. 

Ancient  and  Modern  Greece.     Lectures  be- 
fore the  Lowell  Institute.     2  vols. 

Published  by  the  Lowell  Institute. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1867. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1851-52,  1852-53,  1854-55, 
1859-60.) 

Fisher,  George  Park. 

The    Reformation.       Lectures    before    the 

Lowell  Institute. 

Scribner,  Armstrong  &  Co.,  New  York,  1873. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1871-72.) 

The    Beginnings    of  Christianity.     With    a 
View  of  the  State  of  the  Roman  World 
at  the  Birth  of  Christ.     Lectures  deliv- 
ered before  the  Lowell  Institute. 
Scribner,  Armstrong  &  Co.,  New  York,  1877. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1875-76.) 

Fiske,  John. 

The  Discovery  of  America,  with  Some  Ac- 
count   of    Ancient    America    and    the 
Spanish  Conquest.      2  vols. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1892. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1889-90.) 

Old  Virginia  and  her  Neighbours. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1897. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1894-95.) 

Fletcher,  James  C. 

Brazil  and  the  Brazilians. 

The  author  published  this  book  with  D.  P.  Kid- 


H4  The  Lowell  Institute 

der  in  1857,  incorporating  in  it  the  substance 
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Childs  &  Peterson,  Philadelphia,  1857-79. 

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Freeman,  Edward  Augustus. 

The  English  People  in   its  Three  Homes ; 
the  Practical  Bearings  of  General  Euro- 
pean History. 
Porter  &  Coates,  Philadelphia,  1882. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1881-82.) 

Giles,  Henry. 

Human  Life  in  Shakespeare. 

Lowell  Lectures. 
Lee  &  Shepard,  Boston,  1868. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1856-57.) 

Gliddon,  George  Robbins. 

Ancient  Egypt :  her  Monuments  and  Hiero- 
glyphics. 

T.  B.  Peterson,  Philadelphia,  1848  and  1850. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1843—44.) 

Goodrich,  Charles  B. 

Lowell  Lectures  on  the  Science  of  Govern- 
ment as  exhibited  in  the  Institutions  of 
the  United  States  of  America. 
Little  &  Brown,  Boston,  1853. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1852-53.) 

Gosse,  Edmund  W. 

From  Shakespeare  to  Pope :  Inquiry  into  the 


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Causes  and  Phenomena  of  the  Rise  of 
Classical  Poetry  in  England. 
Dodd,  Mead&  Co.,  New  York,  1885. 

( Lowell  Institute,  1884-85. 

Greene,  George  Washington. 

A  Historical  View  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion.    A  Statement  of  the  Cause  of  the 
Revolution,  its  Development  and  Prog- 
ress, and  the  Principles  involved. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1865. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1862-63.) 

Guyot,  Arnold. 

The  Earth  and  Man.  Translated  from 
Guyot's  French  Lectures  before  the 
Lowell  Institute,  by  Prof.  Cornelius 
Con  way  Felton. 

Gould,  Kendall  &  Lincoln,  Boston,  1850. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1850-51.) 

Hodges,  George. 

Faith  and  Social  Service.  Eight  Lectures 
delivered  before  the  Lowell  Institute. 

Thomas  Whittaker,  New  York,  1896. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

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The  Common  Law.      Eleven  Lectures  de- 
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Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston,  1881. 

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The   French    Revolution:    tested    by   Mira- 
beau's    Career.      Twelve    Lectures    on 
the  History  of  the  French  Revolution 
delivered  at  the  Lowell  Institute. 
Callagan  &  Co,  Chicago,  1894. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1893-94.) 

Hopkins,  Mark. 

Lectures  on  the  Evidences  of  Christianity, 

before  the  Lowell  Institute. 
T.  R.  Marvin,  Boston,  1846. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1843-44.) 

Lectures  on  Moral  Science.     Delivered  before 

the  Lowell  Institute. 

Gould  &  Lincoln,  Boston ;  Sheldon  &  Co.,  New 
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An  American  in  Iceland.     Lowell  Lectures. 
Lockwood,  Brooks  &  Co.,  Boston,  1875. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1874-75.) 

Lanciani,  Rodolfo. 

Ancient  Rome  in  the  Light  of  Recent  Dis- 
coveries. With  36  full-page  Plates  (in- 
cluding several  heliotypes)  and  64  text 
Illustrations,  Maps,  and  Plans.  With 
slip-cover  in  the  Italian  style. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1888. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1886-87.) 


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Lesley,  John  Peter. 

Man's  Origin  and  Destiny,  sketched  from  the 
Platform  of  the  Sciences. 

J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  1868. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1865-66.) 

Lodge,  Henry  Cabot. 

A  Short  History  of  the  English  Colonies  in 
America.     Lowell  Institute  Lectures. 

Harper  Bros.,  New  York,  1881. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1879-80.) 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence. 

Governments    and    Parties    in    Continental 
Europe.     2  vols. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1896. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1892-93.) 

Lowell,  Francis  Cabot. 
Joan  of  Arc. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1896. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

Lowell,  James  Russell. 

The  Old  English  Dramatists.     Lowell  Insti- 
tute Lectures. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1892. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1886-87.) 

Lowell,  Percival. 

Occult  Japan,  or  the  Way  of  the  Gods :  an 


n8  The  Lowell  Institute 

Esoteric  Study  of  Japanese  Personality 
and  Possession. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1894. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1893-94.) 

Mars. 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1895. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1894—95.) 

Lumholtz,  Carl. 

Among    Cannibals :    an    Account    of    Four 
Years'  Travels  in  Australia  and  Queens- 
land.    Translated  by  R.  B.  Anderson. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  London  and  New  York, 
1888.  (Lowell  Institute,  1889-90.) 

Lyell,  Sir  Charles. 

Travels  in  North  America,  with  Geological 
Observations    on    the    United    States, 
Canada,  and  Nova  Scotia.      2  vols. 
John  Murray,  London,  1845. 

A  second  Visit  to  the  United  States  of  North 

America.      2  vols. 
John    Murray,    London ;    Harper    Bros.,    New 

York,  1849. 

(Reviews  of  American  travels  during  his  engagements 
as  a  Lowell  Institute  Lecturer  in  the  Seasons  of 
1841-42  and  1845-46.) 

Marsh,  George  Perkins. 

The  Origin  and  History  of  the  English  Lan- 
guage, and   of  the   Early  Literature   it 


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Embodies.      Lectures   prepared  for  the 
Lowell  Institute,  Boston. 
Scribner  &  Co.,  New  York,  1862. 

(Lowell  Institute,  i 860-61.) 

Martin,  George  H. 

The  Evolution  of  the  Massachusetts  Public 
School    System :     a    Historical    Sketch. 
Lectures  written  for  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1894. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1892—93.) 

Massachusetts   Historical  Society,  Mem- 
bers of  the. 

Lectures   delivered    in   a   Course   before   the 
Lowell  Institute  on  Subjects  relating  to 
the  Early  History  of  Massachusetts. 
Published  by  the  Society,  1 869. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1868-69.) 

Milburn,  William  Henry. 

Pioneer  Preachers  and  People  of  the  Missis- 
sippi Valley. 
Derby  &  Jackson,  New  York,  1 860. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1855-56.) 

Moore,  C.  Herbert. 

Development  and  Character  of  Gothic  Ar- 
chitecture. 

The   Macmillan   Company,  London   and   New 
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Morgan,  Conway  Lloyd. 

An  Introduction  to  Comparative  Psychology. 
Walter  Scott,  London  ;    Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York,  1896. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

Morse,  Edward  Sylvester. 

Japanese    Homes    and    their    Surroundings. 

With  Illustrations  by  the  Author. 
Ticknor  &  Co.,  Boston,  1886. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1881-82.) 

Moxom,  Philip  Stafford. 

From  Jerusalem  to  Nicaea:    the  Church  in 
the  First  Three  Centuries. 
Lowell  Lectures. 

Roberts  Bros.,  Boston,  1895. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1894-95.) 

Nash,  Henry  Spencer. 

Genesis  of  the  Social  Conscience :  the  Rela- 
tion between  the  Establishment  of  Chris- 
tianity in  Europe  and  the  Social  Ques- 
tion. 

The  Macmillan  Company,  New  York  and  Lon- 
don, 1897.        (Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

Norton,  Charles  Eliot. 

Historical  Studies  of  Church  Building  in  the 
Middle  Ages — Venice,  Siena,  Florence. 

Harper  Bros.,  New  York,  1880. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1876-77.) 


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Ober,  Frederick  A. 

Travels    in    Mexico,   and    Life    among    the 
Mexicans.     With  190  Illustrations. 

Estes  &  Lauriat,  Boston,  1884. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1884-85.) 

Palfrey,  John  Gorham. 

Lowell  Lectures  on  the  Evidences  of  Chris- 
tianity.    2  vols. 

Published  by  the  Lowell  Institute. 

James  Munroe  &  Co.,  Boston,  1843. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1839-40,  1840-41,  1841-42.) 

Panin,  Ivan. 

Lectures    on    Russian    Literature :    Pushkin, 

Gogol,  Turgenef,  Tolstoy. 
G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1889. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1888-89.) 

Parks,  Leighton. 

His  Star  in  the  East :   a  Study  in  the  Early 
Aryan  Religions. 
Lowell  Institute  Lectures. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1887. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1884-85.) 

Peabody,  Andrew  Preston. 

Christianity,  the  Religion  of  Nature.     Lect- 
ures delivered  before  the  Lowell  Insti- 
tute. 
Gould  &  Lincoln,  Boston,  1864. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1862-63.) 


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Peabody,  Andrew  Preston. 

Reminiscences  of  European  Travels.    Lowell 

Lectures. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1868. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1867-68.) 

Christianity  and  Science. 

Robert  Carter  &  Bros.,  New  York,  1875. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1874-75.) 

Perkins,  Charles  Callahan. 
Italian  Art. 

Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston,  1875. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1873-74.) 

Potter,  Alonzo. 

Religious  Philosophy ;  or,  Nature,  Man,  and 
the  Bible  witnessing  to  God  and  to 
Religious  Truth:  being  the  Substance 
of  Four  Courses  of  Lectures  delivered 
before  the  Lowell  Institute,  between  the 
Years  1845-50. 

J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.,  Philadelphia,  1872. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1844-45,  1846-47,  1847-48, 
1849-50.) 

Price,  Bonamy. 

Currency  and  Banking. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  London  and  New  York, 
1876.  (Lowell  Institute,  1874-75.) 

Ray,  Isaac. 

Mental  Hygiene. 

James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  Boston,  1863. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1857-58.) 


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Ropes,  John  Codman. 

The    First    Napoleon :    a    Sketch    Political 
and    Military,    with    a    Rare    Portrait, 
Maps,  and  Appendices. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1885. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1884-85.) 

Scudder,  Horace  Elisha. 

Childhood  in  Literature  and  Art,  with  Some 
Observations  on  Literature  for  Children. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1894. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1881-82.) 

Storrs,  Richard  Salter. 

The  Divine  Origin  of  Christianity  indicated 

by  its  Historical  Effects. 
Randolph  &  Co.,  New  York,  1884. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1 8 80-8 1.) 

Bernard  of  Clairvaux  :  the  Times,  the  Man, 
and  his  Work.  An  Historical  Study  in 
Eight  Lectures. 

Scribner  &  Sons,  London  and  New  York,  1802. 
(Lowell  Institute,  1 8  8  8-90. ) 

Taylor,  Bayard. 

Studies  in  German  Literature. 
Putnam's  Sons,  New  York,  1879. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1877-78.) 

Thompson,  D'Arcy  Wentworth. 

Wayside  Thoughts  :  being  a  Series  of  Desul- 


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tory  Essays  on  Education.     Read  before 
the  Lowell  Institute. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1868. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1867-68.) 

Tyndall,  John. 

Lectures  on  Light. 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1873. 

(  Lowell  Institute,  1 8  7  2-7  3 . ) 

Walker,  Francis  Amasa. 
Money. 

Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New  York,  1878. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1878-79.) 

Wallace,  Alfred  Russell. 

Darwinism :    the  Theory  of  Natural  Selec- 
tion, with  Some  of  its  Applications. 
The   Macmillan   Company,  London  and   New 
York,  1889.       (Lowell  Institute,  1886-87.) 

Wendell,  Barrett. 

English  Composition  :  eight  Lectures  at  the 

Lowell  Institute. 
Scribner  &  Sons,  New  York,  1891. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1890-91.) 

Whipple,  Edwin  Percy. 

The    Literature    of  the   Age  of  Elizabeth. 

Lowell  Lectures. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston,  1888. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1858-59.) 


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Whitney,  William  Dwight. 

Language  and  the  Study  of  Language. 

Twelve  Lowell  Lectures  on  the  Princi- 
ples of  Linguistic  Science. 
Charles  Scribner  &  Co.,  New  York,  1867. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1864-65.) 

Wines,  Frederick  Howard. 

Punishment  and  Reformation :  A  Historical 
Sketch  of  the  Rise  of  the  Penitentiary 
System.       Lectures    prepared    for    the 
Lowell  Institute. 
Crowell  &  Co.,  Boston,  1895. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1894-95.) 

Wolkonsky,  Serge. 

Pictures    of   Russian    History  and    Russian 

Literature.      Lowell  Lectures. 
Lamson,  Wolffe  &  Co.,  Boston,  1896—97. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1895-96.) 

Wright,  G.  Frederick. 

The  Ice  Age  in  North  America. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1889. 

(Lowell  Institute,  1887-88.) 

The  Scientific  Aspects  of  Christian  Evidences. 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York,  1897. 

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